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“Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.”
— Richard Bach
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.”
— Malala Yousafzai
“The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.”
— Sigmund Freud
“Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?”
— Bertrand Russell
“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.”
— Bill Gates
“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.”
— Simone Weil
“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.”
— Mark Zuckerberg
“I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.”
— Buzz Aldrin
“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”
— Gloria Steinem
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.”
— Oscar Wilde
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.”
— Cicero
“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”
— Oscar Wilde
“All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.”
— Plato
“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.”
— Noam Chomsky