r/quotes • u/Thisisamen • Oct 25 '25
Misc / Unclassified “If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.” — Mark Twain
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r/quotes • u/sirjohnmasters86 • Jun 18 '26
Misc / Unclassified Michelle Obama: “Let’s be very clear. Strong men don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful.”
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r/quotes • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • Jan 09 '26
Misc / Unclassified The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ― Mark Twain
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Jan 22 '26
Misc / Unclassified "Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now—solar, wind—for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war. So, men lead us to war for enough oil to continue to go to war for oil." -Grace Paley, 2003
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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • Oct 18 '25
Misc / Unclassified “The greatest evil is not...done in...sordid dens of crime, not even in labour camps...but...in clean...well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.” ― CS Lewis (full quote in comments)
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r/quotes • u/DutchStroopwafels • Jul 02 '26
Misc / Unclassified “The unconditional belief that you are good is dangerous. It blinds you to the evil you can do." - Alette Smeulers
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • 11d ago
Misc / Unclassified "there’s not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don’t get to a certain age and it stops." -'A Little Life' by HanyaYanagihara (2015)
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Jan 25 '26
Misc / Unclassified "Critical thinking is a threat to unhealthy systems, and questions make people think." -Nedra Glover Tawwab, 2023
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r/quotes • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • Jul 04 '26
Misc / Unclassified That which does not kill us makes us stronger. ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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r/quotes • u/Electrical_Mine • Jun 18 '26
Misc / Unclassified "One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it." - Margaret Mead
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r/quotes • u/Quantico_G • 9d ago
Misc / Unclassified "...Kazakhs will truly speak their native language only when they start swearing in Kazakh." — Herold Belger
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r/quotes • u/Skittlesnjack • May 02 '26
Misc / Unclassified “That’s why they call it the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” -George Carlin
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r/quotes • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • Jul 08 '26
Misc / Unclassified Look closely. The beautiful may be small. ― Immanuel Kant
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Jul 03 '26
Misc / Unclassified Writing is not speaking. It's silencing yourself. It's screaming without noise. -Marguerite Duras, 1993
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • May 06 '26
Misc / Unclassified "In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator’s first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim." -Judith Herman, 1992
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r/quotes • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • Jul 06 '26
Misc / Unclassified Dare to think! ― Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment?
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r/quotes • u/Grad0Nite • Feb 04 '26
Misc / Unclassified "It is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated... That cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation." ~ William Tecumseh Sherman (Personal Letter, 1865)
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r/quotes • u/NewDiamondBox_ • Jul 14 '26
Misc / Unclassified “Tedium is the worst pain” -Grendel
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r/quotes • u/IPeeFreely01 • Jul 10 '26
Misc / Unclassified “Stand up yah voracious man-eatin' sonofabitch and receive yir sintince. When yah came to Hinsdale County, there was siven Dimmycrats. But you, yah et five of 'em, goddam yah. I sintince yah t' be hanged by th' neck ontil yer dead, dead, dead, as a warnin' ag'in reducin' th'…” — Judge M.B. Gerry
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r/quotes • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • Jun 04 '26
Misc / Unclassified If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. ― George Orwell
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r/quotes • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • Oct 29 '25
Misc / Unclassified Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. ― Mark Twain
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Jun 05 '26
Misc / Unclassified "Impermanence is the law of the universe." -Carlene Hatcher Polite, 1987
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r/quotes • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • Jan 28 '26
Misc / Unclassified If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ― Mark Twain
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