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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 2d

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
-Tolkien

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 4d

“It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.”
-Chomsky

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · Aug 14

"Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just."
-Marcus Aurelius

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 6d

“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
-W.E.B. DuBois

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 9d

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
-Kurt Vonnegut

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 11d

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
-Marcel Proust

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 12d

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
-Plato

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 13d

“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
-Alexis de Tocqueville

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 16d

“It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.”
-Seneca

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 17d

"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not."
-Baruch Spinoza

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 17d

"Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival."
-Carl Sagan

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 19d

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."
-Simone de Beauvoir

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 19d

“As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information.”
-Tomas Schuman

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 22d

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
-Garry Kasparov

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 24d

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
-Harry Truman

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 25d

“There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
-Seneca

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 27d

"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling."
-Lucretius

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · Sep 12

“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”
-Robert A. Heinlein

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · Sep 11

"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance."
-C.S. Lewis

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · Sep 10

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · Sep 9

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
-Marcus Aurelius

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."
-Joseph Campbell

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · Sep 5

"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
-Epictetus

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
-George Bernard Shaw

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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · Sep 3

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
-Bob Marley

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