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“Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.”
Source : James H. Billington (1991). “The Intellectual and Cultural Dimensions of International Relations: Present Ironies and Future Possibilities”
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“However advanced a man may be in piety or age; he is still in danger of falling.”
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“The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.”
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“Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.”
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“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”
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“What I wish for myself is that I could be the kind of person who just goes, 'This is what I need,' and doesn't feel bad about it.”
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“As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.”
Source : H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines”, p.123, Simon and Schuster
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“If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.”
