"There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind."

Buddha on mind
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"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

Buddha on war
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"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."

Buddha on belief
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"Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it."

Starr, Roger on money   

"Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."

Marx, Karl on production   

"In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest."

Marx, Karl on politics   

"The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society."

Marx, Karl on politics   

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."

Marx, Karl on philosophers and philosophy   

"All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth."

Marx, Karl on money   

"Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor."

Marx, Karl on machinery   

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

Marx, Karl on history and historians
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"Religion is the opium of the masses."

Marx, Karl on religion
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"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."

Marx, Karl on religion   

"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."

Marx, Karl on individuality   

"In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

Marx, Karl on communism and socialism   

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

Marx, Karl on unemployment
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"We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."

Marx, Karl on time
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"Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."

Marx, Karl on society   

"The product of mental labor -- science -- always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."

Marx, Karl on science   

"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs."

Marx, Karl on riches
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"Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite!"

Marx, Karl on evolution   

"We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on dance and dancing
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"[Dancing is] A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

Shaw, George Bernard on dance and dancing
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"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels."

Thaves, Bob on dance and dancing
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"Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on friends and friendship
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"The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on power   

"The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling."

Bierce, Ambrose on gambling   

"Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."

Bierce, Ambrose on food and eating
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"Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify."

Bierce, Ambrose on knowledge   

"Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable."

Bierce, Ambrose on laughter   

"Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two."

Bierce, Ambrose on marriage   

"A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills."

Bierce, Ambrose on oceans   

"A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."

Bierce, Ambrose on prejudice   

"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."

Bierce, Ambrose on religion
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"Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."

Bierce, Ambrose on business   

"To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Bierce, Ambrose on certainty   

"Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward."

Bierce, Ambrose on childhood   

"Bride. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

Bierce, Ambrose on weddings   

"Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions."

Bierce, Ambrose on credit   

"A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be."

Bierce, Ambrose on cynics and cynicism
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