“I believe that the truth is the only force that will set us free. I have hope, not in the tangible or in what I can personally accomplish, but in the faith that battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning and ultimately our freedom.” — Chris Hedges …

“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” — Albert Einstein …

“What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith.” — Gary Taubes …

“[T]he resources that could go into rehabilitating people are now sunk, instead, into persecuting them and keeping them marginalized. It’s a failure of insight and of compassion. We are simply not living up to our possibilities as a society.” — Gabor Mate …

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” — Jonathan Swift …

“There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The triumphalism of capitalism…has crumbled away and pessimism may be lifting. The future is unwritten. One can only hope that a route out of the darkness will be navigated, where the discontents are finally able to seize control of their collective destinies.” — Sasha Lilley …

“Rebellion – which is different from revolution because it is perpetual alienation from power rather than the replacement of one power system with another – should be our natural state.” — Chris Hedges …

“Instead of understanding and acceptance, we give [addicts] punishment and moral disapproval. In doing so, we fail to recognize our own deeply rooted problems and thereby forego an opportunity for healing not only for them, the extreme addicts, but also for ourselves as individuals and as a culture.” — Gabor Mate …

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” — Winston Churchill …