“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

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“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

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“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

— Henry Miller

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

— Doris Lessing

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”

— Karl Popper

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Rooted in freedom, bonded in the fellowship of danger, sharing everywhere a common human blood, we declare again that all men are brothers, and that mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.”<...