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We were all born as humans first, and only then as Americans, Russians, Serbs, Croats, Christians, Muslims, Jews, poor, rich, black, white... Only if we accept this truth we can understand the pain others suffer.

"I'd like to believe that people are born to be free, but if you ask for proof, I couldn't give it to you" - Noam Chomsky

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question." - J.S. Mill

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety" - B. Franklin

"Beauty will save the world" - F. Dostoyevsky

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." - F. Dostoyevsky, in The House of the Dead

"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Reading books and having them bound are two different stages in cultural development, two strikingly distinct phases. At first, little by little, man acquires the reading habbit. He does so very, very slowly. It may take centuries, and during that time, he throws his book around and tears them, refusing to grant them the status of a serious object. Now, binding a book is a sign that the book is respected, that man not only enjoys reading but now considers the book as a serious object." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky in The Possessed (The Devils)

"Perfection is the enemy of good enough" - Voltaire

"Pendulum has to swing to its extreme before it changes its direction" - N.A.

"Making profit by dishonest means, by trickery...Such as banking, for instance. It's an evil - the amassing of huge fortunes without labor..." - Tolstoy, in Anna Karenina

"There's no pleasure in life when hope goes. Yes, [hope] might have gone on longer; we might have breathed a bit. If we had only known! Is it possible to make oneself so wretched through wanting justice?" - Emile Zola, in Germinal

"I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them" - B. Pasternak, in Doctor Zhivago

"It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated." - Grigori Perelman, mathematician who solved Poincare's conjecture, talking about math and science community

"We have the best government that money can buy." - Mark Twain

"I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse" - Mark Twain

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence" - Mark Twain

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." - Mark Twain

"War, one damn thing after another" - Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder

"Trima putevima mozemo da dodjemo do mudrosti. Prvo: putem iskustva; to je najtezi put. Drugo: putem podrzavanja; to je najlaksi put. Trece: putem razmisljanja; to je put najplemenitiji." - N.A.

"Требало би забранити говоре. Нека свако уради оно што је хтео да каже".
Душко Радовић

„Razum zna da mu je mesto na kraju povorke" (Mark Tven)

„Činjenica da čovek zna šta je pravo, a šta nije dokazuje njegovu intelektualnu superiornost nad svim ostalim bićima; to što čovek ipak čini zlo, dokazuje njegovu moralnu inferiornost spram svih drugih bića." - Mark Tven

"Da bi ste uspeli u životu potrebne su vam dve stvari: neznanje i samopouzdanje" - Mark Tven

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