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Quote by Vaclav Havel
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, wou

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? – Vaclav Havel

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Sometimes I wonder if suicides arent in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. – Vaclav Havel

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sad
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. – Vaclav Havel

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Hope
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Isnt it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. – Vaclav Havel

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Other Quotes from
Oppression
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

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Oppression

Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans. – William Blake

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Oppression

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. – Nathanael Greene

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Oppression

They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. – G. K. Chesterton

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Oppression

Random Quotes

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. – Albert Camus, The Rebel

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History

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Anger

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Manners

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. – Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary. – Gerrit Smith

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Peace