"So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world."

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Isadora Duncan

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“If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?”
“Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but because when the government acts on the basis of religion it discriminates against those who do not "believe" in the governmentally favored manner.”
“The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.”

Source : "On the nature of visions". Lecture in Vienna, 1912.
“The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics.”
“Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.”

Source : Hee-Jin Kim (2010). “Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen”, p.3, SUNY Press
“Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.”
“Without Virtue there can be no liberty”
“When I get angry, I start thinking about the people involved and they don't deserve my time.”

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