"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain."

336 quotes

🇬🇧Susan Blackmore

Science

b. 1951

"The other key to my failures seemed to be belief. I was told that I didn’t get results because I didn’t believe strongly enough in psi, because I didn’t have an open mind!"

"Full text of "War Is A Racket", Internet Archive"

"Lenin was an undisputed leader of the proletariat, political leader, researcher, scientist, founder, who made important contributions to the socialist construction."

"The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies."

9 quotes

🇺🇸Mary Church Terrell

Social Activism

1863–1954

"In the early 1890’s it required a great deal of courage for a woman to publicly to acknowledge before an audience that she believed in suffrage for her sex when she knew a majority did not. p.144"

"I don't feel that I'm using technology, I don't feel that I'm wearing technology, I feel that I am technology."

"People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant."

9 quotes

🇺🇸Martin David Kruskal

Mathematics

1925–2006

"Origami helps in the study of mathematics and science in many ways. … Using origami anyone can become a scientific experimenter with no fuss."

"The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements."

"Other Russia" is a workshop of picking out pick-locks to the real Russia. Have a read of their texts. Only one question is solved there — how to overthrow Putin's system, i.e. to leave all without the country."

"While few customer offerings have a life, all great products and services have a soul."

"Reason is a religious duty and quality of the mind; and exercise of the judgment upon all occasions and subjects is true and most divine worship."

"It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion."

"Timeline at the Joseph Campbell Library at Pacifica Graduate Institute"

"I knew that it was only education that was to liberate me and my family from the grips of poverty."

3 quotes

🇵🇱Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Politics

b. 1942

"Under Hitler or Stalin a Góral could choose to produce oscypek however he preferred. Nowadays the EU official is watching him."

"I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner."

"There are only two reasons why you leave someone you're still in love with - either it's the right thing to do, or it's the only thing to do."

"To take a stand for the future is to bring forth a new opportunity, not one derived from the past, but an opportunity created from a future to which we give ourselves."

40 quotes

🇺🇸Alexandra Elle

self-care

"No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on."

"A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero."

"Though a superior is rather to be loved, yet by the insolent he ought to be feared."

"Michael H. Hart: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, Carol Publishing Group Edition, New York, , 1993"

"Cyber weapons are effective, affordable and deniable. That’s a great combination in any weapon."

"Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism just as feudalism is a development by refinement from slavery. Capitalism is but the gentleman's method of slavery."

"Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse"

"Identity is not an object; it is a process with addresses for all the different directions and dimensions in which it moves, and so it cannot so easily be fixed with a single number."

"The Polish society is not composed solely of entrepreneurial and energetic young people. I can't image pensioners who get ZL600 or ZL800 a month getting even less than that. That'd be immoral."

"If my life teaches the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may not exasperate to madness men they persecute and illtreat, my life will not be entirely thrown away."

"Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?"

"We are Muslims and we have an ethical tradition. We believe that the Quran is universal and one of the essential doctrines of it is to ensuring equality and justice without any discrimination between poor and rich."

5 quotes

🇫🇷Jean-Marc Jancovici

Politics

political ecology

b. 1962

"Material can follow a circular path, but energy can only add up. One of the challenges is that even "circular economy" needs "linear energy."

"The thing is that underneath we are all humans…Everyone has people they love and people they want to protect, everyone has things they are afraid of or that cause them pain."

"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "John Duns Scotus"

2 quotes

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"The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy."

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"Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fullfilled only through man's subordination."

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"The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies."

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"With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should be subordinated to the needs of the Socialist State; indeed, exploited to further the security of the newly acquired governmental power."

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"The Emma Goldman Papers - University of California at Berkeley"

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