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• I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace

  Thurston Moore

  War, People, Trying

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• Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

  Karl Marx

  Crush, Individual, Abstract

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1888). “Free Trade: A Speech Delivered Before the Democratic Club, Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 9, 1848. With Extract from La Misère de la Philosophie”

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• Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Illusions Of Grandeur, People, Delusions Of Grandeur

  Eugene Ionesco, Charles Marowitz (2015). “Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Fate, Government, People

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• There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

  Martin Luther

  Earth, Reason, Danger

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• What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.

  Caitlin Moran

  Men, Nuts, Feminist

  "How to Be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mattel's Intellivision, instead of Atari's legendary gizmo. This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be.

  Colson Whitehead

  Reality, Apples, Years

  "A Psychotronic Childhood" by Colson Whitehead, www.newyorker.com. June 4, 2012.

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• Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Stupidity, Lust

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• We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Believe, Hard Work, Black And White

  "Secretary Zinke, we can't afford to ignore diversity" by Andre Perry, www.cnn.com. March 27, 2018.

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• Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it for a snake. When we think that the rope is a snake, we are scared, but once we see that we are looking at a rope, our fear dissipates. We have been deluded by our thoughts. Likewise, mentally fabricating self and others, we generate attachment and aversion.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Thinking, Attachment

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• America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short.

  Martin Amis

  Hands, Careers, America

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• This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Littles, Would Be, Enough

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.7, Random House

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• None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.

  Steven Erikson

  Confusion, Secret, Crumbling

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• How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Book, Thinking

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.

  Sarah Waters

  Mad, Said, Nothing But The Truth

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• When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Nature, Confusion

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• He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.

  Tennessee Williams

  Girl, Boys, Discovery

  Tennessee Williams (1953). “A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts”, p.67, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Time, Knowledge, Journey

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.8, Wesleyan University Press

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• Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hope, Frustration, Extinction

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.322

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• Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this center, the living God. Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren. Without worship we live manipulated and manipulating lives. We move in either frightened panic or deluded lethargy as we are, in turn, alarmed by specters and soothed by placebos. If there is no center, there is no circumference.

  Edmund Clowney

  Moving, Sirens, Panic

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• People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.

  Nick Harkaway

  Teacher, Sex, Children

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• I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

  Huey Lewis

  Thinking, Tables, Enough

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• Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Society, Culture, Today

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• I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.

  Conrad Black

  Philosophy, Long, Cartoon

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• You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Believe, Love You, Ears

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