"Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law"

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Source : Interview, 1980.

Michael Foot

#Law Quotes #People Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.”
“The weaker sex, to piety more prone, by rare examples, oft have been renown'd. When many murders were bewail'd by none, an isles whole men in blood by women drown'd.”
“The patchwork nature of the forms are a reflection of sexuality itself.”

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“I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be. So now that reality is antithetical to what I want, how I can feel into it and act skillfully rather than react? How can I choose my best course of action while not pretending I don't have the pain, or running away from the pain, or blaming someone else for the circumstances of my life?”
“Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.”
“If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.”
“There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and how it bounces across the skin. The way that blues and purples come into play. In India and Sri Lanka, it was no different. It became a moment in which I had an opportunity to learn as a painter how to create the body in full form, and that's a very material and aesthetic thing. This is not conceptual. It's all an abstraction.”
“Whatever the attitude, so is the response.”

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