Alexander Berkman Quotes
'Man's inhumanity to man' is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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The struggle between art and mastery is like the struggle between spontaneity and persistence. When they become one, it is indeed rare and hard won.
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I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.
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Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides of the coin. Applying a tax to land values also means removing other taxes. This would so improve the efficiency of a city that land values would go up more than the increase in taxes on land.
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You know that answer to that, don’t you. You don’t need me to tell you.
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'Man's inhumanity to man' is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.
