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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

When liberty returns, I will return.

Author : Victor Hugo

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

Author : John Lennon

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before – or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

Author : James Iha

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Author : Bill Russell

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Author : Hermann Hesse

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Author : Abigail Adams

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Author : Ivan Illich

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Author : Aeschylus

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early ’50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.

Author : John Wayne

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

Author : Audre Lorde

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Author : Henry Ellis

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ’em a mirror , a few pictures of hedgehogs , tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Author : Douglas Adams

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

Author : Susie Bright

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

Author : Thomas Paine

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Author : Felix Adler

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Author : Golda Meir

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Author : George Eliot