"Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is."
+ [ Jorge Luis Borges ]
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"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
+ [ Patrick Henry ]
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"I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God."
and the almond tree blossomed."
+ [ The Fratricides (1964), Nikos Kazantzakis ]
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"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."
+ [ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ]
#literature #forgoodwords #quotes #booksky #justice #power
The Conquest of Happiness, essay by Bertrand Russell
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+ [ Naomi Klein ]
#naomiklein #ClimateChange #globalwarming #literature #forgoodwords #explorepage #quotes #booksky
Image Attribution: [ Naomi Klein at Berkeley, California, in 2014 ] by Moizsyed, CC BY-SA 4.0
"The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well."
+ [ Jorge Luis Borges ]
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+ [ Alice Walker ]
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#AliceWalker #feminism #animalprotection #racism #activism #thinkers #literature #forgoodwords #fypage #explorepage #quotes #booksky
Alice Walker Image Source: Virginia DeBolt, CC BY-SA 2.0
