"Secrecy begets tyranny."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Political Quotes #Secrecy Quotes #Tyranny Quotes

“As a non-western artist, you have to ask yourself a question fairly early in your life: do I want to become a bridge maker, do I want my culture to be understood by the west? I have no intentions of doing such things. I'm fine being a little strange to a non-western audience. It doesn't bother me if my book doesn't change a generation of American readers.”
“There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery.”
“To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.”
“I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.”
“Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.95, Cosimo, Inc.
“Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.”
“I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get letters from young gay and lesbian and trans-gendered kids saying, 'I didn't kill myself because of Buffy'.”
“Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.”

Source : Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “The Day I Killed James”, p.66, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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