The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRYou have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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