"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Men Quotes #Rights Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.”
“In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate notices telling him off for things he hadn't done or which hadn't even occurred to him to do. Being bossed and patronised are two sensations that most sophisticated adults would sooner do without and yet we are bossed and patronised, by the media, by politicians, by business, by advertising agencies and the public services, more now than at any other time in our history. Why should this be?”
“It's all about perseverance. Absolute perseverance. You can always get back up.”
“Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'”

Source : Paul Tillich (1962). “The Shaking of the Foundations”, New York : C. Scribner's Sons
“Both analog and digital developments have intensified the viral nature of sonic culture.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.”
“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.”

Source : Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton
“Now [in 2016] I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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