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That is why it is called the "present".' +unverified: true +--- + +# *Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present".* + +— Alice Morse Earle (attributed) diff --git a/quotes/Aron Ra/data.md b/quotes/Aron Ra/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Aron_Ra_%281%29.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Aron Ra/understand-that-giving.md b/quotes/Aron Ra/understand-that-giving.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2018-06-5' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Answering', 'Assertion', 'Evidence', 'Excuses', 'Knowledge', 'Understanding'] +title: "Understand that giving an answer does't mean making up some bullshit excuse that isn't true or doesn't work." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Understand that giving an answer does't mean making up some bullshit excuse that isn't true or doesn't work.* +— Aron Ra, <cite>[11 "unanswerable" questions for atheists - answered](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1PdswhKtXA&t=268)</cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Bret Stephens/data.md b/quotes/Bret Stephens/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Bret_Stephens_%282391870748%29_%28cropped%29.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Bret Stephens/hearing-people-is.md b/quotes/Bret Stephens/hearing-people-is.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2017-09-16' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Disagreeing', 'Free speech', 'Hearing', 'Listening'] +title: "Hearing people is a precondition for being able to disagree with [it]" +unverified: false +--- + +# *Hearing people is a precondition for being able to disagree with [it]* + +— Bret Stephens, <cite>[J Edgar Hoover, Chelsea Manning, PC Colleges | Overtime with Bill Maher (HBO)](https://youtu.be/SJW2YVArI9M?t=216)</cite> diff --git a/quotes/Charles Kettering/a-problem-well.md b/quotes/Charles Kettering/a-problem-well.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: true +date: '1954' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Clarity', 'Problem solving'] +title: 'A problem well stated is a problem half solved.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *A problem well stated is a problem half solved.* +— Charles Kettering, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780024270504">Practical Public Speaking: A Guide to Effective Communication</abbr></cite>, by Eugene Edmond White and Clair R. Henderlider. diff --git a/quotes/Charles Kettering/data.md b/quotes/Charles Kettering/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Charles_F._Kettering.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Christopher Hitchens/data.md b/quotes/Christopher Hitchens/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Christopher_Hitchens%2C_ATF_Party_2005.JPG' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Christopher Hitchens/hitchens-razor.md b/quotes/Christopher Hitchens/hitchens-razor.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2007-05-01' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Assertion', 'Evidence', 'Logic', 'Reasoning'] +title: 'What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.* +— Christopher Hitchens, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780446579803">God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Christopher Hitchens/how-do-i-know.md b/quotes/Christopher Hitchens/how-do-i-know.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2006-11-01' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Assertion', 'Belief', 'Evidence', 'Logic', 'Reasoning', 'Questioning'] +title: 'How do I know that I know this except that I have always been taught this and never heard anything else?' +unverified: false +--- + +# *How do I know that I know this except that I have always been taught this and never heard anything else?* +— Christopher Hitchens, <cite>[Christopher Hitchens - Free Speech [2006]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olefVguutfo&t=311 +)</cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Edward Snowden/data.md b/quotes/Edward Snowden/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Edward_Snowden-2.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Edward Snowden/laws-were-broken.md b/quotes/Edward Snowden/laws-were-broken.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2016-12-06' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Law', 'Wrong'] +title: "Laws were broken, and that's because the laws were wrong." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Laws were broken, and that's because the laws were wrong.* +— Edward Snowden, <cite>[Snowden's fate under Trump and Putin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx6fZEmTrdA&t=98)</cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Edward Snowden/right-and-wrong.md b/quotes/Edward Snowden/right-and-wrong.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2016-12-06' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Immorality', 'Law', 'Morality', 'Righteousness', 'Wrong'] +title: '[W]e should always make a distinction that right and wrong is a very different standard than legal and illegal. The law is no substitute for morality.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *[W]e should always make a distinction that right and wrong is a very different standard than legal and illegal. The law is no substitute for morality.* +— Edward Snowden, <cite>[Snowden's fate under Trump and Putin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx6fZEmTrdA&t=47)</cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Edward Snowden/your-rights-matter.md b/quotes/Edward Snowden/your-rights-matter.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2014-03-18' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Rights'] +title: 'Your rights matter, because you never know when you are going to need them.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *Your rights matter, because you never know when you are going to need them.* +— Edward Snowden, <cite>[How we take back the interntet | Edward Snowden](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwAodrjZMY&t=830)</cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Edward Tufte/data.md b/quotes/Edward Tufte/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Edward_Tufte_-_cropped.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Edward Tufte/i-think-in-general.md b/quotes/Edward Tufte/i-think-in-general.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2013-05-09' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Knowing', 'Respect'] +title: "I think in general, audience is a lot smarter than the most people think; so it's not \"know your audience\", it's respect your audience and really know your content." +unverified: false +--- + +# *I think in general, audience is a lot smarter than the most people think; so it's not "know your audience", it's respect your audience and really know your content.* +— Edward Tufte, <cite>[The Art of Data Visualization | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdSZJzb-aX8)</cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Epictetus/circumstances-dont-make.md b/quotes/Epictetus/circumstances-dont-make.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: true +date: '2016-10-22' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Circumstances', 'Oneself', 'Revelation'] +title: "Circumstances don't make the man; they only reveal him to himself." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Circumstances don't make the man; they only reveal him to himself.* + +— Epictetus (attributed), <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780446579803">Unf*ck Yourself</abbr></cite>, by Gary John Bishop diff --git a/quotes/Epictetus/data.md b/quotes/Epictetus/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Epicteti_Enchiridion_Latinis_versibus_adumbratum_%28Oxford_1715%29_frontispiece.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Harriet Tubman/data.md b/quotes/Harriet Tubman/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/%28Portrait_of_Harriet_Tubman%29_%28LOC%29_%2838899564300%29.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Harriet Tubman/i-could-have.md b/quotes/Harriet Tubman/i-could-have.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: true +date: '2020-02-18' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Ignorance', 'Slavery'] +title: 'I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.* +— Harriet Tubman, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780571355051">Sex and Lies</abbr></cite>, by Leïla Slimani. diff --git a/quotes/Imām al-Bayhaqi/data.md b/quotes/Imām al-Bayhaqi/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/البيهقي.png' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Imām al-Bayhaqi/if-a-friend.md b/quotes/Imām al-Bayhaqi/if-a-friend.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2020-03-02' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Friendship', 'Err', 'Patience', 'Understanding'] +title: 'If a friend among your friends errs, make seventy excuses for them.' +unverified: true +--- + +# *If a friend among your friends errs, make seventy excuses for them.* +— Imām al-Bayhaqi, <cite>Shu‘ab Al-Imān, 7.522</cite> (unverified) diff --git a/quotes/Interstellar (film)/absolute-honesty-isnt.md b/quotes/Interstellar (film)/absolute-honesty-isnt.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2014-10-26' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Absolute honesty', 'Communication', 'Honesty'] +title: "Absolute honesty isn't always the most diplomatic, nor the safest form of communication with emotional beings." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Absolute honesty isn't always the most diplomatic, nor the safest form of communication with emotional beings.* +— TARS, <cite><em>Interstellar (2014)</em></cite>, directed by Christopher Nolan diff --git a/quotes/Interstellar (film)/data.md b/quotes/Interstellar (film)/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Interstellar_film_poster.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Interstellar (film)/newtons-third-law.md b/quotes/Interstellar (film)/newtons-third-law.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2014-10-26' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Leaving', "Newton's third law", 'Progress'] +title: "Newton's third law. The only way humans have ever figured out of getting somewhere is to leave something behind." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Newton's third law. The only way humans have ever figured out of getting somewhere is to leave something behind.* +— TARS, <cite><em>Interstellar (2014)</em></cite>, directed by Christopher Nolan diff --git a/quotes/Jeff Kosseff/data.md b/quotes/Jeff Kosseff/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: '' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Jeff Kosseff/it-is-important.md b/quotes/Jeff Kosseff/it-is-important.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2019-04-01' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Censorship'] +title: 'It is important to publish the unedited words to allow the readers to access the full scope of the harms suffered by victims.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *It is important to publish the unedited words to allow the readers to access the full scope of the harms suffered by victims.* +— Jeff Kosseff, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9781501735783">The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Jesus (fictional character)/data.md b/quotes/Jesus (fictional character)/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Mary_Magdalene_%282018_film%29.png' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Jesus (fictional character)/how-does-it-feel.md b/quotes/Jesus (fictional character)/how-does-it-feel.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2018-02-26' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Anger', 'Hatered', 'Oneself', 'Sorrow'] +title: 'How does it feel to carry that hate in your heart? Does it lessen as the months go by? It seeps into your days, your nights, until it consumes everything you once were.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *How does it feel to carry that hate in your heart? Does it lessen as the months go by? It seeps into your days, your nights, until it consumes everything you once were.* + +— Jesus, <cite><em>Mary Magdalene (2018)</em></cite>, directed by Gareth Davis diff --git a/quotes/Jonathan Safran Foer/data.md b/quotes/Jonathan Safran Foer/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Jonathan_Safran_Foer.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Jonathan Safran Foer/food-choices-are.md b/quotes/Jonathan Safran Foer/food-choices-are.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2009-10-31' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Conscience', 'Food', 'Logic', 'Reasoning'] +title: 'Food choices are determined by many factors, but reason (even consciousness) is not generally high on the list.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *Food choices are determined by many factors, but reason (even consciousness) is not generally high on the list.* +— Jonathan Safran Foer, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780316069908">Eating Animals</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Jorge Bergoglio (fictional character)/confession-cleans-the.md b/quotes/Jorge Bergoglio (fictional character)/confession-cleans-the.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2019-08-31' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Confession', 'Sinner', 'Victim'] +title: "Confession cleans the sinner's soul, it doesn't help the victim." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Confession cleans the sinner's soul, it doesn't help the victim.* +— Jorge Bergoglio, <cite><em>The Two Popes (2019)</em></cite>, directed by Fernando Meirelles diff --git a/quotes/Jorge Bergoglio (fictional character)/data.md b/quotes/Jorge Bergoglio (fictional character)/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/The_Two_Popes_poster.png' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Kahlil Gibran/data.md b/quotes/Kahlil Gibran/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Kahlil_Gibran_1913.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Kahlil Gibran/forget-not-that.md b/quotes/Kahlil Gibran/forget-not-that.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '1923' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Modesty'] +title: 'Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean.* +## *And when the unclean shall be no more, what were a modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind.* +— Kahlil Gibran, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13:9788172343545">The Prophet</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Kahlil Gibran/what-is-a.md b/quotes/Kahlil Gibran/what-is-a.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '1923' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Knowledge'] +title: '[W]hat is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?' +unverified: false +--- + +# *[W]hat is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?* +— Kahlil Gibran, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9788172343545">The Prophet</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Kahlil Gibran/you-have-been-told.md b/quotes/Kahlil Gibran/you-have-been-told.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '1923' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Failure', 'Strength', 'Weakness'] +title: 'You have been told [...] you are as weak as your weakest link.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.* +## *This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link.* +## *To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam.* +## *To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconsistency.* +— Kahlil Gibran, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9788172343545">The Prophet</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/L Frank Baum/data.md b/quotes/L Frank Baum/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/L._Frank_Baum_%281911%29.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/L Frank Baum/one-is-never.md b/quotes/L Frank Baum/one-is-never.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '1900-05-17' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Broken', 'Healing', 'Hurt', 'Oneself'] +title: '[O]ne is never so pretty after being mended, you know.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *[O]ne is never so pretty after being mended, you know.* + +— China Princess, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780140621679">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</abbr></cite> by L. Frank Baum. diff --git a/quotes/Lawrence M Krauss/data.md b/quotes/Lawrence M Krauss/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Laurence_Krauss.JPG' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Lawrence M Krauss/the-lack-of.md b/quotes/Lawrence M Krauss/the-lack-of.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2011-03-30' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: [ 'Assertion', 'Evidence', 'Ignorance', 'Logic', 'Reasoning', 'Understanding'] +title: "The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of lack of understanding." +unverified: false +--- + +# *The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of lack of understanding.* +— Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss, in a debate titled <cite>[*"Is There Evidence for God?"*](https://youtu.be/TqANWuXQ3Z0?t=3303)</cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Leïla Slimani/data.md b/quotes/Leïla Slimani/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Leïla_Slimani_%28cropped%29.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Leïla Slimani/if-women-havent.md b/quotes/Leïla Slimani/if-women-havent.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2020-02-18' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Culture'] +title: "If women haven't fully understood the state of inferiority in which they are kept, they will do nothing but perpetuate it." +unverified: false +--- + +# *If women haven't fully understood the state of inferiority in which they are kept, they will do nothing but perpetuate it.* +— Leïla Slimani, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780571355051">Sex and Lies</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Leïla Slimani/sexual-rights-are.md b/quotes/Leïla Slimani/sexual-rights-are.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2020-02-18' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Human rights', 'Sexual rights'] +title: '[S]exual rights are a part of human rights' +unverified: false +--- + +# *[S]exual rights are a part of human rights; these are not minor rights, small boons that we can do without. To practise one's sexual citizenship, to do with our bodies as we see fit, to lead a sex life without risk, one that brings pleasure and is free from coercion: these are fundamental needs and rights that ought to be inalienable and guaranteed for all.* +— Leïla Slimani, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780571355051">Sex and Lies</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Leïla Slimani/the-fact-of.md b/quotes/Leïla Slimani/the-fact-of.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2020-02-18' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Education', 'Obsession', 'Sex', 'Sexual education', 'Sexual freedom'] +title: 'The fact of living or having grown up in societies without sexual freedom makes sex a subject of constant obsession.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *The fact of living or having grown up in societies without sexual freedom makes sex a subject of constant obsession.* +— Leïla Slimani, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780571355051">Sex and Lies</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Leïla Slimani/we-are-not.md b/quotes/Leïla Slimani/we-are-not.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2020-02-18' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Culture'] +title: 'We are not the same as our culture; rather, our culture is what we make of it.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *We are not the same as our culture; rather, our culture is what we make of it.* +— Leïla Slimani, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780571355051">Sex and Lies</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Martin Heidegger/data.md b/quotes/Martin Heidegger/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Heidegger_1_%281960%29.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Martin Heidegger/most-often-in-our.md b/quotes/Martin Heidegger/most-often-in-our.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +attributed: true +date: '2013-03-09' +draft: false +lang: 'fr' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Thinking'] +title: 'Most often in the course of our life we think less with words and concepts than they think themselves through us.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *le plus souvent, au cours de notre vie, nous pensons moins avec les mots que les mots et les concepts ne se pensent à travers nous.* + +— Martin Heidegger (attributed), <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9782081278363">Comment j'ai cessé d'être juif</abbr></cite> by Shlomo Sand + +--- + +# *Most often in the course of our life we think less with words and concepts than they think themselves through us.* + +— Martin Heidegger (attributed), <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9781781686140">How I Stopped Being a Jew</abbr></cite> by Shlomo Sand and translated by David Fernbach diff --git a/quotes/Martin Luther King, Junior/an-individual-who.md b/quotes/Martin Luther King, Junior/an-individual-who.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '1963-04-19' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Conscience', 'Disobedience', 'Injustice', 'Law',] +title: "[A]n individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law." +unverified: false +--- + +# *[A]n individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.* +— Martin Luther King, Junior, <cite><em><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780241339466">Letter from Birmingham Jail</abbr></em></cite> diff --git a/quotes/Martin Luther King, Junior/data.md b/quotes/Martin Luther King, Junior/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Martin_Luther_King%2C_Jr._and_Lyndon_Johnson.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Martin Luther King, Junior/injustice-anywhere-is.md b/quotes/Martin Luther King, Junior/injustice-anywhere-is.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '1963-04-19' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Destiny', 'Injustice', 'Justice', 'Mutuality'] +title: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.* +### *We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.* +— Martin Luther King, Junior, <cite><em><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780241339466">Letter from Birmingham Jail</abbr></em></cite> diff --git a/quotes/Martin Luther King, Junior/one-has-not-only.md b/quotes/Martin Luther King, Junior/one-has-not-only.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '1963-04-19' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Disobedience', 'Injustice', 'Justice', 'Law', 'Legal responsibility', 'Moral responsibility', 'Obedience', 'Oppressor'] +title: "One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." +unverified: false +--- + +# *One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.* +— Martin Luther King, Junior, <cite><em><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780241339466">Letter from Birmingham Jail</abbr></em></cite> diff --git a/quotes/Martin Luther King, Junior/seldom-do-i-pause.md b/quotes/Martin Luther King, Junior/seldom-do-i-pause.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '1963-04-19' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Criticism', 'Disagreement', 'Work'] +title: "Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas.* +### *If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, [...] I would have no time for constructive work.* +— Martin Luther King, Junior, <cite><em><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780241339466">Letter from Birmingham Jail</abbr></em></cite> diff --git a/quotes/Mary Beth Tinker/data.md b/quotes/Mary Beth Tinker/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Mary_Beth_Tinker_at_Ithaca_College%2C_19_September_2017.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Mary Beth Tinker/i-was-a.md b/quotes/Mary Beth Tinker/i-was-a.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +attributed: true +date: '2021-02-07' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Censorship', 'Free speech', 'Human rights'] +title: "I was a 13-year-old kid. The only power I had was my speech." +unverified: false + +--- + +# *I was a 13-year-old kid. The only power I had was my speech.* + +— Mary Beth Tinker, <cite>[What are the limits of free speech? | Big Think](https://youtu.be/tIwYTq-v_2o?t=1259)</cite> diff --git a/quotes/Mona Eltahawy/cultures-evolve-through.md b/quotes/Mona Eltahawy/cultures-evolve-through.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2015-04-21' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Culture'] +title: 'Cultures evolve through dissent and robust criticism from their members' +unverified: false +--- + +# *Cultures evolve through dissent and robust criticism from their members* +— Mona Eltahawy, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780865478039">Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Mona Eltahawy/data.md b/quotes/Mona Eltahawy/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Mona_Eltahawy_2011.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Mona Eltahawy/many-people-say.md b/quotes/Mona Eltahawy/many-people-say.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2015-04-21' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Rights', "Women's rights"] +title: "Many people say that they support a woman's right to choose to wear the niqab because it's her natural right. But what they're doing is supporting an ideology that does not believe in a woman's right to do anything except cover her face." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Many people say that they support a woman's right to choose to wear the niqab because it's her natural right. But what they're doing is supporting an ideology that does not believe in a woman's right to do anything except cover her face.* +— Mona Eltahawy, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780865478039">Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Mona Eltahawy/the-battles-over.md b/quotes/Mona Eltahawy/the-battles-over.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2015-04-21' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Freedom', "Women's rights"] +title: "The battles over women's bodies can be won only by a revolution of the mind." +unverified: false +--- + +# *The battles over women's bodies can be won only by a revolution of the mind.* +— Mona Eltahawy, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780865478039">Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Mona Eltahawy/to-the-girls.md b/quotes/Mona Eltahawy/to-the-girls.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2015-04-21' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Disobedience', 'Freedom', 'Modesty', 'Rebellion'] +title: 'To the girls of the Middle East and North Africa: Be immodest, rebel, disobey, and know you deserve to be free' +unverified: false +--- + +# *To the girls of the Middle East and North Africa: Be immodest, rebel, disobey, and know you deserve to be free* +— Dedication in Mona Eltahawy's book, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780865478039">Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Mona Eltahawy/we-must-speak.md b/quotes/Mona Eltahawy/we-must-speak.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2015-04-21' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Apostasy', 'Blasphemy', 'Disobedience', 'Freedom', 'Injustice', 'Justice', 'Oppression'] +title: 'We must speak—blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *We must speak—blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required.* +— Mona Eltahawy, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780865478039">Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Mona Eltahawy/we-stand-on.md b/quotes/Mona Eltahawy/we-stand-on.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2015-04-21' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Freedom', "Women's rights"] +title: 'We stand on the shoulders of these women, and we must fortify our own shoulders for those to come.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *We stand on the shoulders of these women, and we must fortify our own shoulders for those to come.* +— Mona Eltahawy, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780865478039">Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Monica Lewinsky/data.md b/quotes/Monica Lewinsky/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Monica_Lewinsky.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Monica Lewinsky/let-us-acknowledge.md b/quotes/Monica Lewinsky/let-us-acknowledge.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2015-03-20' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Intent', 'Speaking'] +title: "[L]et's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention." +unverified: false +--- + +# *[L]et's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.* + +— Monica Lewinsky, <cite>[The price of shame](https://youtu.be/H_8y0WLm78U?t=1206)</cite> diff --git a/quotes/Pashto saying/data.md b/quotes/Pashto saying/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/I_Am_Malala.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Pashto saying/kindness-can-only.md b/quotes/Pashto saying/kindness-can-only.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: true +date: '2013-10-08' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Kindness'] +title: "Kindness can only be repaid with kindness. It can't be repaid with expressions like 'thank you'." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Kindness can only be repaid with kindness. It can't be repaid with expressions like 'thank you'.* +— Pashtu saying, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780297870913">I am Malala</abbr></cite>, by Malala Yousafzai. diff --git a/quotes/Pashto tapey/data.md b/quotes/Pashto tapey/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/I_Am_Malala.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Pashto tapey/dont-kill-doves.md b/quotes/Pashto tapey/dont-kill-doves.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: true +date: '2013-10-08' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Peace making'] +title: "Don't kill doves in the garden. You kill one, and the others won't come." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Don't kill doves in the garden. You kill one, and the others won't come.* +— Pashto tapey, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780297870913">I am Malala</abbr></cite>, by Malala Yousafzai. diff --git a/quotes/Paul Graham/data.md b/quotes/Paul Graham/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Paul_Graham_programming.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Paul Graham/if-a-piece-of-code.md b/quotes/Paul Graham/if-a-piece-of-code.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2007-08-01' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Authorship', Coding', 'Programming'] +title: '[I]f a piece of code is written by multiple authors, none of them understand it as well as a single author would.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *[I]f a piece of code is written by multiple authors, none of them understand it as well as a single author would.* +— Paul Graham, <a href="http://paulgraham.com/head.html">Holding a Program in One's Head</a> (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20201212145427/http://paulgraham.com/head.html">Archived link</a>). diff --git a/quotes/Paul Graham/if-you-start-with.md b/quotes/Paul Graham/if-you-start-with.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2007-08-01' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Problem solving', 'Prototyping'] +title: 'If you start with too big a problem, you may never quite be able to encompass it. So if you need to write a big, complex program, the best way to begin may not be to write a spec for it, but to write a prototype that solves a subset of the problem.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *If you start with too big a problem, you may never quite be able to encompass it. So if you need to write a big, complex program, the best way to begin may not be to write a spec for it, but to write a prototype that solves a subset of the problem.* +— Paul Graham, <a href="http://paulgraham.com/head.html">Holding a Program in One's Head</a> (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20201212145427/http://paulgraham.com/head.html">Archived link</a>). diff --git a/quotes/Paul Graham/whatever-the-advantages.md b/quotes/Paul Graham/whatever-the-advantages.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2007-08-01' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Coding', 'Planning', 'Programming'] +title: "Whatever the advantages of planning, they're often outweighed by the advantages of being able to keep a program in your head." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Whatever the advantages of planning, they're often outweighed by the advantages of being able to keep a program in your head.* +— Paul Graham, <a href="http://paulgraham.com/head.html">Holding a Program in One's Head</a> (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20201212145427/http://paulgraham.com/head.html">Archived link</a>). diff --git a/quotes/Paulo Coelho/data.md b/quotes/Paulo Coelho/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Paulo_Coelho_2007-04-07_001.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Paulo Coelho/everyone-seems-to.md b/quotes/Paulo Coelho/everyone-seems-to.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2009-10-17' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Knowledge'] +title: 'Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.* +— Paulo Coelho, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9788172234980">The Alchemist</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Paulo Coelho/when-you-possess.md b/quotes/Paulo Coelho/when-you-possess.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2009-10-17' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Learning'] +title: 'When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.* +— Paulo Coelho, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9788172234980">The Alchemist</abbr></cite>. diff --git a/quotes/Planet of the Apes (film)/data.md b/quotes/Planet of the Apes (film)/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/77/Dawn_of_the_Planet_of_the_Apes.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Planet of the Apes (film)/fear-makes-others.md b/quotes/Planet of the Apes (film)/fear-makes-others.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2014-06-26' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Fear', 'Follow'] +title: "Fear makes others follow." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Fear makes others follow.* +— Blue Eyes, <cite><em>Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)</em></cite>, directed by Matt Reeves diff --git a/quotes/Richard M Stallman/data.md b/quotes/Richard M Stallman/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Richard_Stallman_at_Pittsburgh_University.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Richard M Stallman/malicious-technology-cant.md b/quotes/Richard M Stallman/malicious-technology-cant.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2013-07-15' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Excuses', 'Malice', 'Technology'] +title: "Malicious technology can't be excused if it has some good effects." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Malicious technology can't be excused if it has some good effects.* + +— Richard Stallman, <cite>[Richard Stallman: Snowden & Assange besieged by empire but not defeated](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUJtMlEwd6Q&t=872)</cite> diff --git a/quotes/Richard M Stallman/we-have-to.md b/quotes/Richard M Stallman/we-have-to.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2018-05-06' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Strength'] +title: 'We have to develop the strength to say no.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *We have to develop the strength to say no.* + +— Richard Stallman, <cite>[Richard Stallman: Dangers of IoT and Amazon Alexa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAP4N3KyLmM&t=123)</cite> diff --git a/quotes/Rudy Francisco/data.md b/quotes/Rudy Francisco/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: '' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Rudy Francisco/sooner-or-later.md b/quotes/Rudy Francisco/sooner-or-later.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2017-11-03' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Religion', 'Worship'] +title: "Sooner or later you will realize that you are praying to your own shadow, that you are standing in front of mirrors and are worshipping your own reflection." +unverified: false +--- + +# *Sooner or later you will realize that you are praying to your own shadow, that you are standing in front of mirrors and are worshipping your own reflection.* +— To the Man Standing on the Corner Holding the Sign that said “God Hates Gays”, <cite><em><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9781943735198">Helium</abbr></em></cite> by Rudy Francisco diff --git a/quotes/Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya/data.md b/quotes/Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Rabia_al-Adawiyya.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya/i-want-to-put.md b/quotes/Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya/i-want-to-put.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: true +date: '2020-03-11' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Fear', 'Hell', 'Love', 'Paradise', 'Reward', 'Worship'] +title: 'I want to put out the fires of Hell, and burn down the rewards of Paradise. They block the way to God. I do not want to worship from fear of punishment or for the promise of reward, but simply for the love of God.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *I want to put out the fires of Hell, and burn down the rewards of Paradise. They block the way to God. I do not want to worship from fear of punishment or for the promise of reward, but simply for the love of God.* + +— Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya, <cite><em><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9781780995670">Leap to Freedom: Healing Quantum Guilt</abbr></em></cite>, by Devrah Laval diff --git a/quotes/Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya/o-my-lord.md b/quotes/Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya/o-my-lord.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: true +date: '2020-03-11' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Fear', 'Hell', 'Paradise', 'Worship'] +title: "O my Lord, if I worship Thee from fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship Thee from hope of Paradise, exclude me thence, but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake then withhold not from me Thine Eternal Beauty" +unverified: false +--- + +# *O my Lord, if I worship Thee from fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship Thee from hope of Paradise, exclude me thence, but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake then withhold not from me Thine Eternal Beauty* + +— Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya, <cite><em><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780521318631">Rābiʿa the Mystic and her fellow-saints in Islam</abbr></em></cite>, by Margaret Smith diff --git a/quotes/Saint Augustine/an-unjust-law.md b/quotes/Saint Augustine/an-unjust-law.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +attributed: true +date: '1994-01-01' +draft: false +lang: 'la' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Injustice', 'Justice', 'Law'] +title: "An unjust law is no law at all" +unverified: false +--- + +# *Lex iniusta non est lex* +— Augustin d'Hippone (attributed), <cite><em><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780241339466">The Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, Volume IV</abbr></em></cite> by J.M.Y. Simpson and R.E. Asher + +---- + +# *An unjust law is no law at all* +— Saint Augustine, <cite><em><abbr title="ISBN: 0080359434">The Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, Volume IV</abbr></em></cite> by J.M.Y. Simpson and R.E. Asher diff --git a/quotes/Saint Augustine/data.md b/quotes/Saint Augustine/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Saint_Augustine_by_Philippe_de_Champaigne.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Salman Rushdie/a-college-should-be.md b/quotes/Salman Rushdie/a-college-should-be.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2017-09-16' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Free speech', 'Ideas', 'Safe space', 'Thoughts'] +title: "A college should be a safe space for thought. Not a safe space from thought." +unverified: false +--- + +# *A college should be a safe space for thought. Not a safe space from thought.* + +— Salman Rushdie, <cite>[J Edgar Hoover, Chelsea Manning, PC Colleges | Overtime with Bill Maher (HBO)](https://youtu.be/SJW2YVArI9M?t=409)</cite> diff --git a/quotes/Salman Rushdie/data.md b/quotes/Salman Rushdie/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Conversando_con_Salman_Rushdie%2C_Museo_de_la_Ciudad_de_Mexico_%2815265500778%29.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Soumya Nandi/data.md b/quotes/Soumya Nandi/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: '' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Soumya Nandi/it-is-always.md b/quotes/Soumya Nandi/it-is-always.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2021-04-12' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Quotes', 'Simplicity'] +title: "It's always the simplest quotes like that [w]hich make the most sense" +unverified: false +--- + +# *[L]et's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.* + +— Soumya Nandi diff --git a/quotes/Suzanne Eder/data.md b/quotes/Suzanne Eder/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: '' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Suzanne Eder/there-is-a-crucial.md b/quotes/Suzanne Eder/there-is-a-crucial.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2015-11-30' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Difference', 'Learning', 'Power', 'Self improvement', 'Self worth'] +title: "[T]here's a crucial difference between learning from someone, and giving our power away to another person's formulæ. One comes from self-worth, the other comes from the sense of lack." +unverified: false +--- + +# *[T]here's a crucial difference between learning from someone, and giving our power away to another person's formulæ. One comes from self-worth, the other comes from the sense of lack.* + +— Suzanne Eder, <cite>[The Dark Side of Self Improvement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wljRiAofFJ8&t=586)</cite> diff --git a/quotes/The Insult (film)/data.md b/quotes/The Insult (film)/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/The_Insult_%28film%29.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/The Insult (film)/some-people-find.md b/quotes/The Insult (film)/some-people-find.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '2017-09-14' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Apology', 'Err'] +title: "[S]ome people find it difficult to apologise. It doesn't mean they don't recognise their errors." +unverified: false +--- + +# *[S]ome people find it difficult to apologise. It doesn't mean they don't recognise their errors.* +— Talal, <cite><em>The Insult (2014)</em></cite>, directed by Ziad Doueiri diff --git a/quotes/Thomas Paine/data.md b/quotes/Thomas Paine/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Portrait_of_Thomas_Paine.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/Thomas Paine/vices-of-those.md b/quotes/Thomas Paine/vices-of-those.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: true +date: '2010-01-14' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Censorship', 'Disagreement', 'Freedom', 'Free speech', 'Rights', 'Vice'] +title: 'Vices of those who would repress the opinions of others is they make themselves prisoners of their own opinions because they deny themselves the right and the means of changing them.' +unverified: false +--- + +# *Vices of those who would repress the opinions of others is they make themselves prisoners of their own opinions because they deny themselves the right and the means of changing them.* +— Thomas Paine paraphrased by Christopher Hitchens, <cite>[Christopher Hitchens - Freedom of Expression](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YhEfTpCILk&t=200)</cite>. diff --git a/quotes/William Penn/data.md b/quotes/William Penn/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Penn_at_22_1666.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/William Penn/to-delay-justice.md b/quotes/William Penn/to-delay-justice.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: true +date: '1682' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Delay', 'Injustice', 'Justice'] +title: "[T]o delay Justice is Injustice." +unverified: false +--- + +# *[T]o delay Justice is Injustice.* +— William Penn, <cite><em><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9781419148026">Some Fruits of Solitude</abbr></em></cite> diff --git a/quotes/bell hooks/data.md b/quotes/bell hooks/data.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +--- +cover: 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Bellhooks.jpg' +--- diff --git a/quotes/bell hooks/to-be-strong.md b/quotes/bell hooks/to-be-strong.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +attributed: false +date: '1981' +draft: false +lang: 'en' +misattributed: false +tags: ['Oppression', 'Strength'] +title: '[T]o be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression' +unverified: false +--- + +# *[T]o be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation* +— bell hooks, <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780896081291">Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism</abbr></cite>.