Quotes for All
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige … Read more
The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together. Epicurus
Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one’s desires, but by the removal of desire. Epictetus
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless … Read more
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. Edsger Dijkstra
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get. Edward Albee
Illness is the result of improper removal of toxins from the body. Oxygen is the vital factor which assists the body in removing toxins. Ed McCabe
Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it – the world that you’ve constructed – through your focus within your mind, to something else. Frederick Lenz
If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others. Frederick Douglass
Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers. Frank Chodorov