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The average man doesn't want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.

H.L. Mencken

Notes on Democracy

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Mencken, H. L. Notes on Democracy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, pt. 3, ch. 1.

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War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to face it.

Benito Mussolini

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Mussolini, Benito. "Fascismo [Fascism]: 'Forza e consenso [Strength and Consent].'" Enciclopedia Italiana [Italian Encyclopedia]. 1932.

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The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

Catherine MacKinnon

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MacKinnon, Catharine A. "Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence." Signs. Vol. 8, No. 4, c. 1983.

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Douglas MacArthur

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MacArthur, Douglas. Keynote address at the Republican National Convention. Republican National Convention. 7 July 1952, International Amphitheatre, Chicago, IL, USA.

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100 percent of the shots you don't take don't go in the net.

Wayne Gretzky

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Gretzky, Wayne. Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer. 9 Feb. 1983.

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Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us die.

Albert Camus

The Sea Close By

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Camus, Albert. "The Sea Close By." Lyrical and Critical Essays. Vintage Books, 1970. Originally published in L'Eté [Summer]. Gallimard, 1954.

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Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Andrea Dworkin

Sexual Economics

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Dworkin, Andrea. Letters from a War Zone. Dutton, 1989, pt. 3.

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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Karl Barth

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Barth, Karl. "The Righteousness of God." Das Wort Gottes und die Theologie [The Word of God and Theology]. Mchn., Kaiser, 1924. Originally a lecture called "The Righteousness of God" delivered 16 Jan. 1916 in City Church, Aarau, Switzerland.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama. 10 Apr. 1909, Abby Theatre of Dublin, Liverpool, England, UK, pt. 1.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet." Playlets. Oxford University Press, 2021, pt. 1.

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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus

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Camus, Albert. Le Mythe de Sisyphe [The Myth of Sisyphus]. Éditions Gallimard, 1942.

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It's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on.

Lou Reed

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Perfect Day

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Reed, Lou. "Perfect Day." Transformer. RCA Records, 1972.

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What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

Naomi Wolf

The Beauty Myth

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Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women. Chatto & Windus, 1990.

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I could have danced all night
And still have begged for more.
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things
I've never done before.

Eliza Doolittle

I Could Have Danced All Night

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Lerner, Alan Jay. "I Could Have Danced All Night." My Fair Lady. Composed by Frederick Loewe. 15 Mar. 1956, Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

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The sons of torture-victims make good terrorists.

Andre Malraux

Man's Fate

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Malraux, Andre. La Condition humaine [The Human Condition]. Librairie Gallimard, 1933, pt. 4.

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Malraux, Andre. Man's Fate. Penguin Books, 2009, pt. 4.

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A lie keeps growing and growing, until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

Pinocchio

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Pinocchio. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Productions, 1940.

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A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

John A. Shedd

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Salt from My Attic

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Shedd, John A. Salt from My Attic. Mosher Press, 1928.

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Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities

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Calvino, Italo. Le citta invisibili [Invisible Cities]. Giulio Einaudi, 1972.

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Of all sexual aberrations perhaps the most curious is chastity.

Remy de Gourmont

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De Gourmont, Remy. Physique de l'Amor: Essai Sur l'Instinct Sexuel [Physics of Love - Essay on Sexual Instinct]. Mercure de France, 1903, ch. 18.

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Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

Florynce Kennedy

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Kennedy, Florynce. "Institutionalized Oppression vs. the Female." Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From The Women’s Liberation Movement, edited by Robin Morgan. Vintage Books, 1970.

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