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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the…
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,…
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in…
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
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War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.…
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When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in…
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
— Corazon Aquino
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It's an incredibly exciting thing, this one meaningless life of yours
— Tim Minchin
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Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life.…
— George Lois
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We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory;…
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To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Man cannot stand a meaningless life.
— Carl Jung
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True…
— Erich Fromm
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Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it…
— Hu Shih
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Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.
— Shia LaBeouf
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So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important.…
— Morrie Schwartz
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I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you…
— Ruth Ozeki
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So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important.…
— Morrie Schwartz
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