"The First Amendment to the Constitution says government can't establish a religion, but neither can it limit the exercise of religion. And that's the issue here. What does it mean to be free to exercise your religion? It's not about what you can believe. It's whether you can act on those beliefs."

-- Tom Gjelten

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.”
“Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.”
“When the world around you is falling to pieces. Invite yourself into a new world that you have invented and can't be touched.”
“Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.”
“People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.”
“One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.”

Source : Interview with Dag Rambraut, www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.
“Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.”

Source : John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.256, Faber & Faber
“I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.”

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