QUOTES Thread

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True. the other day this bus inspector was on the phone and saying to the one who phoned him that he was in the toilet. I asked him about it when I got off the bus and he laughed it off. I am therefore The Two.

The Two** (my past name, that is, me rewriting world history)**

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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well… You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect…

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

- Michael Crichton

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“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” — Rosa Luxemburg

“You cannot buy the revolution,You cannot make the revolution.You can only be the revolution.it is in your spirit,or it is nowhere”

Ursula K Le Guin

“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” — Samuel Adams

“To conquer we must dare, dare again, ever dare!” — Georges Danton

“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.” — Dolores Ibárruri

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Does he hate the executed ones then?

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No, the quote doesn’t refer to the executed ones. The quote means that when victims idolize, obey or respect their oppressors, they inadvertently internalize their subjugation and forfeit their responsibility for their own liberation.

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“Just look at us. Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality and governments destroy freedom.”

― Michael Ellner

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Not just lawyers but even the media, the police, and the government destroy justice too.

We live in a world where justice is not served easily, especially if it involves black magic, power, money, influence and connections.

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If anything, my opinion is that that’s a stupid thing to say then, no offense.

For how can there be a victim that’s alive and still capable of paying respect when somebody else has been deemed to be his/her executioner?

Executioner to me means somebody who dropped the guillotine, or who simply triggered any cause to death of the body.

The correct term, I believe, should have been oppressors instead of executioners.

Jean-Paul Sartre, being a French (right?), this supposed ‘‘quote’’ of his must have been mistranslated, if anything.

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True that! Because I guess that one can’t really expect anything in return for one having helped them, except whatever The Almighty Wills you to experience through them in return, whether it be a much appreciated Thanks! or simply nothing at all! :slight_smile:

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Always do and be one’s best then, Should He So Bless one therewith! :slight_smile:

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