Deborah Sampson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe.
-- Deborah Sampson -
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!
-- Deborah Sampson -
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.
-- Deborah Sampson
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Screw guilt -- I could have sex with 10 men and it wouldn't bother me. I'm an atheist!
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An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.
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We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.
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Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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You wouldn't be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.
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