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White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples. ↗

— Cornel West

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Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole. ↗

— B.W. Powe

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Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors. ↗

— James W. Sire

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It's not the same thing: coffee without cream or coffee without milk. What you don't get is part of the identity of what you get. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

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Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity. ↗

— Terence McKenna

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Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique. ↗

— John R.W. Stott

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Salahkah bila kita menghargai pikiran yang merdeka-yang tidak dikejar kejar, yang tak diusut dan diancam, sebuah pikiran yang tak ditakut-takuti oleh cap "berdosa" atas nama Tuhan ataupun kewaspadaan. ↗

— Goenawan Mohamad

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All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power. ↗

— Clive James

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...the years have taught me not to wonder too much at the dark things men do. Strange how it is that men never act crueller than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do. And I'm not going to give them the power now. But it was a cruel thing that they did, and when they had finished hurting me, a splinter of loneliness seemed to break off and stay inside me forever. ↗

— Marcel Theroux

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But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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