"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."

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Source : Assata Shakur (2016). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.151, Zed Books Ltd.

Assata Shakur

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Moral Quotes

“States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 5),
“Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.”
“Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.”
“Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.”
“I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.”
“Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.”
“The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition”
“As for complicating the black metal aesthetic, I don't care about that since it was never a goal of mine to lay out any particular preconceived aesthetic, let alone one of traditional black metal where pseudonyms are adopted.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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