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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: dance, dancing, reading
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    Voltaire
    “Love truth, but pardon error.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: truth
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    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
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    Voltaire
    “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

    (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: enmity, humor, prayers, religion, ridicule, satire, social-justice, social-life
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    Voltaire
    “Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: books, reading
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    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism
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    Voltaire
    “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: god, voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
    ― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy
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    Voltaire
    “I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
    ― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism
    tags: mortality
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    Voltaire
    “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
    (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: deathbed, enemies, satan
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    Voltaire
    “Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.”
    ― Francois Marie Arouet
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    Voltaire
    “the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: truth
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    Voltaire
    “Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Just for the sake of amusement, ask each passenger to tell you his story, and if you find a single one who hasn’t often cursed his life, who hasn’t told himself he’s the most miserable man in the world, you can throw me overboard head first.”
    ― Candide, Candide
    tags: ingratitude
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    Edward Abbey
    “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
    ― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
    tags: capitalism, greed, growth
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    Eugene V. Debs
    “I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
    ― Eugene Debs
    tags: aristocracy, capitalism, feudalism, inequality, justice, labor, poverty, wealth
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    Philip Slater
    “Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.”
    ― Philip Slater
    tags: capitalism, commercialism, economy, endless-circles, failed-systems, greed, materialism, pursuit-of-loneliness, stuff-things
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    Tom Robbins
    “Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in the bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles. Economy uber alles. Let nothing interfere with economic growth, even though that growth is castrating truth, poisoning beauty, turning a continent into a shit-heap and riving an entire civilization insane. Don't spill the Coca-Cola, boys, and keep those monthly payments coming.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction
    tags: america, capitalism, economics
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    Upton Sinclair
    “Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
    ― Upton Sinclair
    tags: capitalism, fascism, upton-sinclair
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    Paul Farmer
    “Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. ”
    ― Paul Farmer
    tags: capitalism, medicine, poverty, society, wealth
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    Michael Parenti
    “The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”
    ― Michael Parenti, Against Empire
    tags: capitalism, drugs, humanity, miltary, nature, television
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    George Carlin
    “Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: capitalism, economics-philosophy, humor, politics
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    Cornel West
    “In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.”
    ― Cornel West, Cornel West Reader
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    Noam Chomsky
    “The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Hopes and Prospects
    tags: capitalism, democracy, neoliberalism
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    Malcolm X
    “You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”
    ― Malcom X
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Vladimir Lenin
    “Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Hélder Câmara
    “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
    ― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
    tags: charity, christianity, communism, compassion, food, hunger, poverty, socialism
    995 likes



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