Quotes you live by

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"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members"
Marx
 
We "conserve" nothing; neither do we want to return to any past periods; we are not by any means "liberal"; we do not work for "progress"; we do not need to plug up our ears against the sirens who in the market place sing of the future: their song about "equal rights," "a free society," "no more masters and no servants" has no allure for us.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. I give an example. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions. One knows, indeed, what their ways bring: they undermine the will to power; they level mountain and valley, and call that morality; they make men small, cowardly, and hedonistic [genüsslich] — every time it is the herd animal that triumphs with them. Liberalism: in other words, herd-animalization ...

These same institutions produce quite different effects while they are still being fought for; then they really promote freedom in a powerful way. On closer inspection it is war that produces these effects, the war for liberal institutions, which, as a war, permits illiberal instincts to continue. And war educates for freedom. For what is freedom? That one has the will to self-responsibility. That one maintains the distance which separates us. That one becomes more indifferent to difficulties, hardships, privation, even to life itself. That one is prepared to sacrifice human beings for one's cause, not excluding oneself.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which must be overcome, by the effort [Mühe] it costs to remain on top. The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude. This is true psychologically if by "tyrants" are meant inexorable and dreadful instincts that provoke the maximum of authority and discipline against themselves — most beautiful type: Julius Caesar — ; this is true politically too; one need only go through history. The nations which were worth something, became worth something, never became so under liberal institutions: it was great danger that made something of them that merits respect. Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit — and forces us to be strong ...
 
Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.

—Ben Shapiro
 
To me, a life's worth is its net impact on other people. It's like gravity in that way. The more that you impact other people with what you do, the more the course of history is changed, and the more important you are to all of life that is left to be lived (even if your name is forgotten).
 
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"The thing with me is that I AM smart and I’m self smarted, basically, by myself, basically from nature and smoking drugs and doing different things I’ve self… like self learned myself. And that’s the whole difference I guess is that I don’t need the books or the schooling type things. I just get everything on my own and because of that I’m alive right now. I mean, if I had read more books or tried to go on to college and different things like that I’d be dead right now, because people say books and college are for to be make you smarter, but they can also be for to be make you dead, which is what could have happened to me. My brain doesn’t use enough oxygen because I don’t have the whole thing filled with different stuff and if it was full--it’s only part full--and that’s why I’m alive right now. The guards are giving me here, you know--"read this book, try to get smarter"--but I’m like, all right, I’ll pretend to read it but I’m not going to really read it 'cause my brain will be more full and if I have another heart attack I’m going to die..." -Ricky
 
"Nothing is built on stone. All is built on sand, and we must build as if the sand were stone" -Jorge Luis Borges

"The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bares your mark" - Dave Chappelle

"The axe forgets. The tree remembers" - A proverb from the Shona people of Zimbabwe

"The enemies of the people are those that keep them in ignorance" - Thomas Sankara, visionary politician and former leader of Burkina Faso.

But the one I always take to heart is this:

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"You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ 'Has your life brought joy to others?’"

The Bucket List -- Morgan Freeman
 
"An insane asylum can't be a success if it is run by sane people."
 
Every experience carries within it a lesson.

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it
 
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. I believe it is attributed to Antonio Gramsci.

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I read this book. I was interesting, I liked it.
 
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it — that is great, that belongs to greatness.
 
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