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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell

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"It’s easy to be a communist in a free country. But try being free in a communist country." - Aubrey Huff

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"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down." Frederick Douglass

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If Freedom of Speech is Taken Away, then Dumb and Silent we may be led, like Sheep to the Slaughter - George Washington

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"If you want help, help yourself -- people like to see that." - Chris Rock

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"To anger a conservative lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth." Teddy Roosevelt

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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubt, while the stupid people are full of confidence.” -Bertrand Russell

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"Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days." - Thomas Sowell

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"Getting rid of capitalist 'exploiters' in Communist countries did not raise the living standards of workers, even to levels common in many capitalist countries, where workers were presumably still being exploited, as Marxists conceived the term." - Thomas Sowell

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"The students won't cheat in exams if they value their learning more than we value their grades." - Richard Feynman

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“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” ― George Bernard Shaw

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"..every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day, minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." - George Orwell - 1984

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"Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies." - Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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"Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking. They want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation." - George Carlin

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"Our greatest struggle would come in 2010 as we tried to bring the 1st Amendment to the United States” Julian Assange

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"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito in the room." - Dalai Lama

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"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." - John Stuart Mill

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Here’s James Woods from Twitter yesterday: “This much is certain after all this rioting: in two weeks we’re either going to have a shitload of sick Democrats, or we’re going to realize COVID-19 was not what Democrats said it was.”

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"With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge -- we'll make it a thing of the past." - Aaron Swartz

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“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.“ Thomas Sowell

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"I started reading ... how the educational system was developed, and alternatives to it, and ways that people could actually learn things instead of just regurgitating facts that teachers told them; and that kind of led me down this path of questioning things...." - Aaron Swartz

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"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" — Albert Camus

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"Goyim (non-jews) were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel." - Ovadia Yosef, Israeli rabbi

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"The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism." - Al Goldstein

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"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity." - William S. Burroughs

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"It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth." Alexis de Tocqueville

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“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” Mark Twain

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"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives." ~ Robert A. Heinlein.

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“You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.” ― Banksy

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"Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, and still call yourself Pro-Life" John Fugelsang

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"I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet. If you're wondering what I believe our purpose on this planet is, I'll give you a hint... it has to do with Creating and Sharing." Bill Hicks

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"Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense..." - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill [970x1000]

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"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." -Winston Churchill

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"Watching the news is the mental equivalent of smoking cigarettes." Ed Latimore

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"Bipartisan Usually Means That A Larger than Usual Deception Is Being Carried Out" --George Carlin

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"We do not talk. We bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines, and digests." ~ Henry Miller, 1945

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"An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings." ~ Salman Rushdie

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" One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. " ~ Plato, sort of.

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear - George Orwell

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"Poor Kids Are Just as Bright as White Kids" - Joe Biden

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Long term effects of too much information

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"Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused." - Aaron Swartz

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"The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites, lowest common denominator programming... but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." -Carl Sagan

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"People willing to trade their freedom for security will receive neither." Benjamin Franklin

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“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” - Howard Zinn

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"Culture is not your friend..." - Terence McKenna

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"Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it. I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, "oh! wait a minute - I was wrong" I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you." Lemmy

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"If it was conventional wisdom that a bunch of unelected bankers looking out for rich people were the reason everyone was out of work, politicians would be forced to explain to angry voters why we had this crazy system and might actually consider doing something about it." - Aaron Swartz

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"Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality check..." Terry Pratchett

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"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." - Dorothy Parker

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"I would've never agreed to the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in '47, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo." - President Harry Truman

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"We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin..." - Bill Hicks

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"As the internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them." - Aaron Swartz

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hopefully this is what saidit strives to be

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"At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." – Hannah Arendt

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“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” Jesse Jackson

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“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how." Joseph Stalin - Chapter 5: "Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary," published in 1980, Paris

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“Accuse Your Enemy Of What You Are Doing, As You Are Doing It To Create Confusion.” --Karl Marx

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"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will." - Joseph Goebbels

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"This is your life, this is your country - if you want to keep it safe you need to get involved." - Aaron Swartz

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Some solid Dick

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"Why is there so much effort being put into trying to find intelligent life on other planets, when there is a serious question about how much intelligent life there is here?" - Thomas Sowell

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21 Nonconformity Quotes to Help You Resist the Crowd

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Karl Marx Was a Horrific Racist. Here Are the Quotes to Prove It

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"Once I realized that there were real serious problems, fundamental problems, that I could do something to address, I didn't see a way to forget that" - Aaron Swartz

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“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.” Admiral William Adama

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"You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you..." - Bruce Lee

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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

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"Don't believe that every member of a group is as bad as it's worst 5 percent. If you do, you're probably among the worst 5 percent of whatever group you're in." - Scott Adams

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"Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth" Lucy Parsons

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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency... the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson 1802

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"Selfishness is not living your life as you wish. It is asking others to live their lives as you wish." ~ Oscar Wilde

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"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company." - Rene Descartes

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"Try to live together peacefully..." George Carlin

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“Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.” Carl Sagan

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is we're disturbing the war." - Howard Zinn

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"... They won't even admit the knife [they put in my back] is there." - Malcolm X

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“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.” - Voltaire

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EPIC quote by Stephen L. Carter, Professor Of Law, Yale University...

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“If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.” Terence McKenna

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"Talent is just pursued interest." - Bob Ross

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"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." George Orwell

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"America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong..." Miley Cyrus

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"As a woman I completely reject Hillary's brand of bourgeois feminism, because it leaves out millions of immigrant women, poor women and the women under her bombs around the world." ~ Abby Martin, The Empire Files

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“Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company.” - René Descartes

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"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. -- Joseph Goebbels. Who knew Goebbels was woke?

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"We got to face some facts... You don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism." Fred Hampton

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"A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build." - Leon Brown

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"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company." - Oscar Wilde

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. — Thomas Jefferson, 1807

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"Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquify our brains..." Bill Waterson

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" A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." ~ Edward R. Murrow... maybe.

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"A quiet secluded life in the country, work which one hopes may be of some use, rest, nature, books, music — such is my idea of happiness.” Leo Tolstoy

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If a Businessman makes a mistake, He suffers the consequences. If a Bureaucrat makes a mistake, You suffer the consequences. -Ayn Rand

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"We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin. Where division is key and unity is fantasy. Where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.” Bill Hicks

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"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam." -- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly

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"If you had the kind of brain that could understand the poems of T. S. Eliot or the theories of Karl Marx, the higher-ups would see to it that you were kept out of any important job." George Orwell

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"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Never throw out anyone." Audrey Hepburn

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