Revenge Based Civilization

“All civilization is based on revenge. Some may call it justice or laws, but knowing in some way if you mess with my stuff or with me I can mess with you and yours, have in the past few millennia kept us somewhat civilized and have stayed the hand of most sane people.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Limited Grief

“Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.”
--Pliny the Elder

We are All Villains

“No matter how good a person you are, we are all bad guys in someone’s story, so enjoy your role and at least be a memorable villain.”
--Niccolò Machiavelli

All You Know Is Previlege

“When all you have known is privilege, equal treatment feels like oppression.”
--Unknown

Fear Less

“Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.”
--Swedish Proverb

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Kill them All

“Kill them all and let God sort them out.”
--Arnaud Amalric

Hell is Emplty

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
--William Shakespeare

An Honest Man

“All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are an honest man in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits. If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go Bankrupt

“At first you go bankrupt slowly, then all at once.”
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

Calls for Unity

“How hypocritical are the calls for a unity that is a mask for the suppression of all opposition, how fatally lying or wrong are all beliefs that liberty is the peculiar attribute of any single individual or group, prince or democrat, nobles or people or multitude.”
--James Burnham

All Men Being Equals

“For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho’ himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.”
--Thomas Paine

The First Link

“With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we're all damaged.”
--Jeri Taylor

Ill Tempered Man

“An ill tempered, unhappy man ridicules all he hears, makes fun of others, refusing always to see the faults in himself.”
--Viking Proverb

Think Alike

“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
--Walter Lippmann

Could be Monsters

“All heroes could be monsters. They just choose not to be.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Good and Evil

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts.”
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Rise Against Tyranny

“All a people need in order to rise up against tyranny is a leader bold enough to take up the banner.”
--Viking Proverb

Full of Yesterday

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
--Leonard Cohen

Show Your Benefits

“Unless you can demonstrate your benefits, all you are left to compete with is price.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Philosophy In a Bottle

“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”
--Louis Pasteur

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