"You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious."

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Source : "TUNISIA: No Time for Democracy". content.time.com. September 29, 1958.

Habib Bourguiba

#Liberty Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Serious Quotes

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
“Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.”
“Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.”
“Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.”
“When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.”
“Suffering is there because there's something we're not understanding about our full divinity, and there are so many ways we could go into understanding.”
“I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.”
“Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you”

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