Michael Ventura Quotes

#1. Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

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#2. Most of us aren't very graceful about not having our needs met, when and how we want them met.

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#3. Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.

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#4. Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

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#5. To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind
is to be crazy, not healthy.

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#6. That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.

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#7. He became a surgeon because he was afraid of knives. He got married because he was afraid of women. He had a child because he was afraid of responsibility. Now, his marriage over and his child no longer speaking to him, he turned off all the lights in the house because he was afraid of the dark

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#8. Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone.
If they mean it, they need it.

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#9. Work is a sacrament. Don't despise anyone's.

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#10. The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

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#11. If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

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#12. When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose to conduct their lives within the limits of whatever fantasy the government supplies, then they are no longer consenting to be governed, they are begging to be ruled.

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#13. My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?

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#14. Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

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#15. It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

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#16. All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

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