304 Quotes About Nihilism

  • Author Mikhail Bakunin
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    We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the milieu in which we live; for it corrupts our instinct and our will, and constricts our heart and our intelligence

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  • Author Gilbert K. Chesterton
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    The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

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  • Author John Dewey
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    No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.

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  • Author Richard Dawkins
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    Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but cannot be expected to worry a tiger - even if a tiger can be said to worry about anything at all - and certainly cannot be expected to worry its genes.

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  • Author Robert Jensen
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    I am against nationalism, and I am against patriotism. They are both the dark side. It is time not simply to redefine a kinder-and-gentler patriotism, but to sweep away the notion and acknowledge it as morally, politically, and intellectually bankrupt. It is time to scrap patriotism.

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  • Author Naomi Klein
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    The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

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