The church so hated these good people (the Albigenses - a 'heretical' sect of thirteenth century France) whose Christ-like compassion was such a judgement on its own pagan and anti-Christian violence, that their vegetarian habits were not only represented as signs of a diabolical heresy, but were also used as a means to detect and convict them. For when prisoners were taken, sheep were led to them and knives were provided for their butchery. Those who refused to kill the animals were burnt at the stake, and the majority did refuse since to take sentient life violated the very basis of their faith.
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Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
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This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime
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I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.
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The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.
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I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.
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When I was in prison I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap. People shouldn't read that stuff. When we read these books what purpose does it serve in this day and time?
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I'm just an average guy. I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson either.
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I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.
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I am not a role model.
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I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating
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My objective is to be the ultimate professional.
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I was drinking every day, fighting guys on the street, hanging out with bizarre women. But those days are gone. That guy is dead.
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Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent
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Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.
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I'm on the Zoloft to keep me from killing y'all.
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All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too
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You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
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She said, 'Sure, just give me a call,'
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I'll go back and take what the people owe me.
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I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.
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