Lisa Delpit famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.
There are contingency plans in the NATO doctrine to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area.
Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.
All objects exist in a moment of time.

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