"Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?"

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

#Law Quotes #World Quotes #Why Not Quotes

“It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.”
“Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.”

Source : Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.12, Templeton Foundation Press
“Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it again, counting. Thirty-two times it had fallen Slayer Society up. Twenty-two times it was down.”
“I'm not into power for the sake of it.”
“The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade.”

Source : Gaston Leroux (2014). “The Phantom of the Opera By Gaston Leroux”, BookRix
“Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.”

Source : William Howard Taft (1912*). “Peace, patriotic and religious addresses by President Taft: delivered during his administration”
“I meditate at airports because those are the places where Iâ€™m extremely tense, and I often meditate while Iâ€™m walking down the street. I have a thought and become aware of that thought and thereby create another level of awareness.”
“I want faith; but I am faithless”

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