"To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed."

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Rowan Atkinson

#Religious Quotes #Race Quotes #Law Quotes

“A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.”
“I like a woman with priorities”

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“I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie!”
“We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.”

Source : "Steve Kazee, ‘Once’ Star, Hits New York’s 54 Below With Original Alt-Country Show". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.
“You must improvise, adapt, and overcome.”
“I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.”
“As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!”

Source : W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.175, Penguin UK
“the soul of conversation is sympathy”

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