#cons

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#been #body talks #clinical #constant #crimes

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#before #coming #conscience #far #had

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#astrology #astronomy #believe #every #few

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#apparatus #challenge #conscience #humanity #legal

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#consider #follow #knowledge #live #made

With six pieces of wood, I’m building a life, and my coffin.
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— Jarod Kintz

#carpentry #coffin #construction #death #life

There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#consciousness #illusions #life #natural #path

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#psychoanalysis #psychology #sexuality #subconscious #yoga

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#consists #damn #damn fool #day #every

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you. ↗

— Eric Bana

#great people #guess #i #influence #people