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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances you were born with. – Amy Tan Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
These men - ..., the politicians, ... - use their position, their knowledge, and their power of disseminating misinformation to arouse and stimulate the latent instinct for bloodshed. When they have succeeded, they say they are reluctantly forced to war by the pressure of public opinion. – Bertrand Russell Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty. – Immanuel Kant Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception. – Friedrich August von Hayek Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. – Theodore Dalrymple Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it. – Adam Smith Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Man is deeply vulnerable when faced with overwhelming evil. Instead of consolidating his energy to fight it, he wastes valuable time and effort puzzling over it, insisting it is not, cannot possibly be, what it seems. – Konnilyn G. Feig Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom of speech on campus. This demand for enhanced censorship is not emanating only from the usual corner – the know-nothing fundamentalist right – it is coming from the radical, and increasingly not-so-radical left as well. – Alan Dershowitz Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure if we have removed their only firm basis: a conviction in the minds of men that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever. – Thomas Jefferson Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense... – Alexander Hamilton Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense. – William Blackstone Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism. – Yaron Brook Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money. – Davy Crockett Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederick Bastiat Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant’s plea, excused his devilish deeds. – John Milton Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say. – Walter Lippmann Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. – Virginia Woolf Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
How can a universe of mindless matter produce beings with intrinsic ends, self replicating capabilities, and coded chemistry? – Antony Flew Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers... and if none of that works, I go buy a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac. – Susan Strasberg Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it? – Lee Strasberg Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Acting isn’t something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you’re going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results. – Lee Strasberg Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality. – Lee Strasberg Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
A great actor is independent of the poet; because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in the prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. – Lee Strasberg Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
If a majority are capable of preferring their own private interest, or that of their families, counties, and party, to that of the nation collectively, some provision must be made in the constitution, in favor of justice, to compel all to respect the common right, the public good, the universal law, in preference to all private and partial considerations... And that the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of history... To remedy the dangers attendant upon the arbitrary use of power, checks, however multiplied, will scarcely avail without an explicit admission some limitation of the right of the majority to exercise sovereign authority over the individual citizen... In popular governments [democracies], minorities [individuals] constantly run much greater risk of suffering from arbitrary power than in absolute monarchies... – John Adams Famous Quote	added 3 years ago

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