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«For the sake of it, you journey to sacred shrines and holy rivers; but this priceless jewel is within your own heart.»
«How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie ? people claim they want to be free ? everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free ? they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security?How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?»
«If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred»
«Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.»
«Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Capitalism
| Keywords:
advocated, advocates, advocating, apt, capitalism, embodied, embodies, embodying, exercise, fortunate, maxim, must not, principles, restrained, sacred, The Advocate, tyranny, unfortunate, unfortunates
«God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New - the Jekyll and Hyde of sacred romance»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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atrocious, attractive, Jekyll and Hyde, New Gods, Old Testament, romance, sacred, testament, testaments, The New
«History is a sacred kind of writing, because truth is essential to it, and where truth is, there God himself is, so far as truth is concerned»
«Declare today ?sacred time??off-limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others? demands.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey
(Actress, Producer)
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Care of, declare, demands, firmly, graciously, invited, in demand, limits, needs, off-limits, off, personal, sacred, take care, take time off, Taking Off, time off
«If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
account, advocate, advocated, advocating, after all, ears, First to, Genesis, Give Me Liberty, human ear, sacred, schoolmaster, schoolmasters, serpent, thank, The Advocate, whisper
«All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Civil rights,
Democracy,
Freedom
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all too, bear in mind, cases, Equal rights, majority, minority, prevail, principle, protect, reasonable, rightful, sacred
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