Michael Ventura famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.
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To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.
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The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.
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My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?
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If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.
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Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.
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That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.
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Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.
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All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.
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Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.
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Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.
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When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose to conduct their lives within the limits of whatever fantasy the government supplies, then they are no longer consenting to be governed, they are begging to be ruled.
-- Michael Ventura
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