The Dispossessed

Book · 4 characters · 405 quotes · 1974

Quotes from The Dispossessed

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"Suffering is the condition on which we live"
Takver Wisdom
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"The gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time"
Shevek Kindness
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"We are the people who refuse the imperative"
Shevek Freedom
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"Knowledge must be shared to have meaning."
Shevek Knowledge
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"In offering nothing, one offers everything."
Shevek
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"Responsibility is what makes us human."
Takver Wisdom
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"We live in time as fishes live in water."
Shevek Philosophy
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"To make a gift is to make a claim."
Shevek Relationships
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"Time is the substance I am made of."
Shevek Time
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"In the end, the individual and the society are one."
Shevek Philosophy
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"The only true law is growth."
Shevek Change
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"One cannot create freedom. One can only prevent enslavement."
Shevek Freedom
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"To love is to be vulnerable."
Takver Love
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"Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes, you know it. You know it as the truth."
Shevek Wisdom
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"We are the people of the world. Not the government, the people."
Shevek Politics
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"Love is the only answer to loneliness."
Takver Love
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"Nations! What are they but schools of hatred?"
Shevek Peace
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"The greatest scholars are those who learned humility."
Takver Knowledge
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"The wall between the worlds is not stone or steel."
Shevek Philosophy
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"The social organism develops in organisms, not organisms in a social organism."
Shevek Philosophy
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"Time isn't passing. Passing is what time does."
Shevek Time
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"We are our own enemy."
Shevek Philosophy
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"Work is play when it's done for the love of it."
Shevek Work
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"The people are the revolution."
Takver Politics
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"We have nothing to give you but your own freedom of thought."
Shevek Freedom
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"To oppose something is to maintain it."
Shevek Wisdom
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"Individual and society: the cell and the organism."
Shevek Philosophy
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"One cannot have true dialogue with an enemy."
Shevek Peace
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"The law of existence is struggle."
Sabul Philosophy
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"We are the generation of mankind that will be free at last."
Shevek Freedom