"Man's conscience is the oracle of God."

-- Lord Byron

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“Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.”
“Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.”

Source : Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry (1992). “The universe story: from the primordial flaring forth to the ecozoic era--a celebration of the unfolding of the cosmos”, Harper San Francisco
“If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.”
“Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons within city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or other misdemeanor.”
“True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.”
“From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.”
“You notice. And noticing, you live.”

Source : John Graves (2016). “From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas”, p.163, University of Texas Press

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