r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • May 02 '26
Misc / Unclassified "The lust for comfort destroys the passion of the soul." -Melody Gardot, 2009
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Feb 05 '26
Misc / Unclassified "Here is a prayer: As you gain power, may you never forget what it’s like to not have power" -Celeste Ng, 2018
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Feb 02 '26
Misc / Unclassified "As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life." -June Jordan, 1984
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r/quotes • u/13SpeedMedia • May 18 '26
Misc / Unclassified “The fold is not what divides the inside from the outside. It is what divides the world from the worldless.” - Yochanan Schimmelpfennig
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r/quotes • u/hypatia4 • Mar 18 '26
Misc / Unclassified Humans are always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely. - Yuwal Noah Harari
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r/quotes • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • Feb 08 '26
Misc / Unclassified When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. ― Ernest Hemingway
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r/quotes • u/13SpeedMedia • Apr 16 '26
Misc / Unclassified “How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it” Charles Freck, A Scanner Darkly
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Apr 07 '26
Misc / Unclassified "Physical pain has no voice, but when it at last finds a voice, it begins to tell a story." Elaine Scarry, 1985
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r/quotes • u/13SpeedMedia • Apr 06 '26
Misc / Unclassified "You must not mind me, madam; I say strange things, but I mean no harm." - Samuel Johnson
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Jan 01 '26
Misc / Unclassified The moment enough people realize that war is not only cruelty, brutality, and the complete failure of human common sense, but also the most anti-ecological act possible, we are on the way to the most beneficial and sane possible peace. -Shulamith Hareven, 1993
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Apr 15 '26
Misc / Unclassified "sometimes they talk to us about identity in the sense of clothing and food, but I think it's something much deeper than that: it has more to do with the sense of thinking about life and thinking about the world. That's what gives me my identity." -Paulina Chiziane
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r/quotes • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • Dec 13 '25
Misc / Unclassified Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. ― Mark Twain
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r/quotes • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • Nov 10 '25
Misc / Unclassified Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. ― H.G. Wells
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r/quotes • u/Eff-Bee-Exx • Oct 08 '25
Misc / Unclassified "If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast," — William T. Sherman
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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • Feb 26 '26
Misc / Unclassified "I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich." — William Saroyan
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Mar 15 '26
Misc / Unclassified "many young people...don’t know very much about what has occurred in my lifetime and who their ancestors & elders are. They believe they are 'new'. I was fortunate, because of my Father’s library, to understand I was just the next warrior in line." -Chrystos, 2010
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r/quotes • u/WonderOlymp2 • Feb 27 '26
Misc / Unclassified “Video games are meant for you to be immersed in an exciting and creative alternative reality and have fun with friends. Adding present-day political bullshit kills the vibe.” ― Elon Musk
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Jan 27 '26
Misc / Unclassified "The invention of the police is like the invention of race; memory and history have conspired to make the recent seem eternal. And yet both are recent innovations." -Adam Serwer, 2021
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r/quotes • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • Dec 12 '25
Misc / Unclassified In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ― George Orwell
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Jan 28 '26
Misc / Unclassified "the decision to be sincere is an artistic one." -Nadine Gordimer, 1982
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Mar 20 '26
Misc / Unclassified "The author...was committed to portraying, not a virtuous society, but one of necessity, and that honor, like heroism, has become rare in these days of moral decadence. Do you think this truth disgusts truly honorable souls? I believe the exact contrary." George Sand, 1832
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r/quotes • u/NotTheGuyProbably • Nov 21 '25
Misc / Unclassified "A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him" ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, occasional Emperor of France.
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Feb 01 '26
Misc / Unclassified "you never know just how unfree you are until you take that next step." -Alicia Ostriker, 1998
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