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Alas, this palate is like a dumping ground; it relishes anything that needs no mental mastication. As a result, the mediocre, the ordinary, the commonplace represents the chief literary output.

Anarchism and Other Essays, Emma Goldman

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Have not the few accumulated the wealth of the world? Are they not the masters, the absolute kings of the situation? Their success, however, is due not to individualism, but to the inertia, the cravenness, the utter submission of the mass. The latter wants but to be dominated, to be led, to be coerced.

Anarchism and Other Essays, Emma Goldman

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Never before did the corruption, the complete rottenness of our government stand so thoroughly exposed; never before were the American people brought face to face with the Judas nature of that political body, which has claimed for years to be absolutely beyond reproach, as the mainstay of our institutions, the true protector of the rights and liberties of the people.

Anarchism and Other Essays, Emma Goldman

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If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. Our entire life—production, politics, and education—rests on quantity, on numbers. The worker who once took pride in the thoroughness and quality of his work, has been replaced by brainless, incompetent automatons, who turn out enormous quantities of things, valueless to themselves, and generally injurious to the rest of mankind. Thus quantity, instead of adding to life's comforts and peace, has merely increased man's burden.

Anarchism and Other Essays, Emma Goldman

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No man would consent to be a woman, but every man want woman to exist.

The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir

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As Schopenhauer was to put it pompously: “Prostitutes are human sacrifices on the altar of monogamy”

The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir

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Soy quien soy porque estoy aquí.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Cuando religión y política viajan en el mismo carro, los viajeros piensan que nada podrá interponerse en su camino. Se vuelven apresurados… viajan cada vez más rápido y más rápido y más rápido. Dejan de pensar en los obstáculos y se olvidan olvidan de que un precipicio siempre se descubre demasiado tarde.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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—Sylvia Plath, "Apprehensions"

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En las profundidades de nuestro inconsciente hay una necesidad obsesiva por un universo lógico y coherente. Pero el universo real siempre se halla un paso por delante de la lógica.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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El concepto de progreso actúa como un mecanismo de protección destinado a defendernos de los terrores del futuro.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Pensó que en aquel momento la mayor de las misericordias sería poder detenerse aunque solo fuese por un momento. No había lugar para la misericordia si no podían detenerse.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Woman was dethroned by the advent of private property, and her lot through the centuries has been bound up with private property: her history in large part is involved with that of the patrimony.

The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir

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Still more fatal is the crime of turning the producer into a mere particle of a machine, with less will and decision than his master of steel and iron. Man is being robbed not merely of the products of his labor, but of the power of free initiative, of originality, and the interest in, or desire for, the things he is making.

Anarchism and Other Essays, Emma Goldman

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Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.”

Anarchism and Other Essays, Emma Goldman

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Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. The widespread mental indolence, so prevalent in society, proves this to be only too true. Rather than to go to the bottom of any given idea, to examine into its origin and meaning, most people will either condemn it altogether, or rely on some superficial or prejudicial definition of non-essentials.

Anarchism and Other Essays, Emma Goldman

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The ignorant mass has in its favor that it makes no pretense of knowledge or tolerance.

Anarchism and Other Essays, Emma Goldman