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crimethinc
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"The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

-Marjane Satrapi

#NoWarWithIran

themindmovement
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“What good are all these, if we can’t use them? Yes, we need schools and doctors, but they are just for the rich. I wish I didn’t even know doctors existed. Before, we were ignorant, but now we know that pills and shots can help us. But we can’t buy them, so we watch our children die from sickness as well as hunger. Before, the elders said that if a child died, it was the will of god, but now, I think that it’s the will of the government.”

— Kurdish farmer, Iran 1971

daphnah
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To complain to people (about your suffering) by speech or behaviour.

This is contradictory to patience.

Ibn al-Qayyim ‘Uddāt as-Ṣābirīn wa Dhākiratū ash-Shākirīn (p. 7)

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“People praise you for what they suppose is in you; but you must blame your soul for what you know is in it.”

[Ibn ‘Ata Allah al-Iskandari]

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Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales Get This Book (via awesomebookquotes)