Jane Rule on Bearing Witness

“If we don’t bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.”

~ Jane Rule

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George Orwell on Political Speech and Writing

“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”

~ George Orwell

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Friedrich Nietzsche on Looking Into the Abyss

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.”

~Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil”, Aphorism 146 (1886)

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