Mikhail Bakunin Quotes
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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Between the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow
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I’m just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I’m the sort of person who worries about the difference between 'slim' and 'slender.'
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
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We work very closely together on the issue of annexation of Crimea and Russia’s attempt to actually conquer Ukraine. And actually they did so - conquered part of the territory. We tried to come to a peaceful settlement here on this.
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There was such sanity in his voice; a politician’s sanity, as he sold his flock the wisdom of the bomb. This soulless certainty was more chilling than hysteria or malice.
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Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.
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Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.
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Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.
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Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.
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When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'
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Having a profile means you have to be cautious of who you let into your world, as you don't know if they're being genuine or not, but it's more that it can be a strain on your relationships.
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Being a leading man can come in many different forms.
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I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.
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When I meet somebody, I hang out with them, and it's all good, but I don't take it too seriously.
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I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.
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On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.
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We are committed to the proposition that principles of morality and considerations for our own security will never permit us to acquiesce in a peace dictated by aggressors and sponsored by appeasers. We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
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I don't know whether to call myself a golfer who acts or an actor who plays golf.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
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The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
