""Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter""

-- Christopher Peterson

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“As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the â€œsacredness of human lifeâ€ remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.”

Source : Leon Trotsky, Slavoj Žižek, Henry Noel Brailsford (2007). “Terrorism and communism: a reply to Karl Kautsky”, Verso Books
“Honor is the moral conscience of the great.”
“The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct.”
“Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.”
“Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.261, Macmillan
“Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.”
“Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that the local must be the basis of the general; that there can be a free federation only when there are free communities to federate; that the spirit of the latter is carried into the councils of the former, and a local tyranny may thus become an instrument for general enslavement.”
“Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what they think into something that they can express to others.”

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