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condemned
«The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.»
Author: Howard Nemerov
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condemned, condemned to death, escape from, examine, henceforth, in writing, subject to, way out
«The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
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abundance, condemned, construct, controlling, convenience, enable, equipment, intolerable, liberation, plunges, richly, such that, The Organization
«The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Intelligence,
Pride
| Keywords:
cell, condemned, proud, proud of
«The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
War
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beings, condemned, condemning, conventions, human beings, individual, instruments, monstrous, murder, murdered, murdering, politics, quarreled, quarreling, quarrels, shocking, the Convention, the conventions, victims
«Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
condemned, repeat
«The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, there is massive Islamic condemnation of the United States.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
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Blair, condemnation, condemned, invasion, invasion of Iraq, Iran, Islamic, Islamic World, issue, massive, misleading, nowadays, Palestinian, Palestinians, statements, unjust, unwarranted
«The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ceaselessly, condemned, dreadful, fall back, futile, hopeless, rolling, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stones, Sisyphus, The Rolling Stones, whence
«The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.»
«The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.»
«The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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acquire, admittedly, common mistake, condemnation, condemned, costs, natural ability, praised, The Wish