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First-Rate Propagandists
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We are made and destroyed by propaganda. Organised religions are first-rate propagandists, every means being used to persuade and then to hold.
We are the result of the thoughts and influences of others; we are conditioned by religious as well as political propaganda. The temple, the church and the mosque have a strange, shadowy influence in our lives, and political ideologies give apparent substance to our thought.
~ Krishnamurti
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The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.
~ Paulo Reglus Neves Freire
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When they betray you, it’s as if they’ve cut off your arms — you can forgive them, but you can’t embrace them.
~ Tolstoy
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All life has consciousness! All life can think and reason, if it couldn’t, it would be dead! Getting food, staying safe, and finding a mate are hard things to do, right? Yet every living thing does them, over and over!
