"Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights."

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Source : Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.1

Benjamin Rush

#Men Quotes #Rights Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.”
“Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.”

Source : Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.109, Vintage
“Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.”
“Fervent prayers produce phenomenal results.”
“Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?”

Source : Peter Shaffer (2011). “Equus”, p.79, Simon and Schuster
“The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever.”

Source : Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.74, Courier Corporation
“I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.”
“no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.”

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