"All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own."

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Source : "Rivers of Blood". BBC Documentary, March 08, 2008.

Roger Scruton

#Fighting Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Law Quotes

“The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs.”
“The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.”
“I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrilled.”

Source : "Diane Keaton Talks Aging, Sex And Having Plastic Surgery" by Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 23, 2012.
“If it be asked, Why does God not bestow the same or equal blessing upon all people? we can only answer, that has not been fully revealed. We see that in actual life He does not treat all alike. For wise reasons known only to Himself He has given to some blessings to which they had no claimâ€¦and has withheld from others gifts which He was under no obligation to bestow.”
“It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres to the rule of law, not just domestically, but internationally. There are no bystanders. No one is entitled to an 'apolitical' exemption from such obligation. Where default occurs, either by citizens endorsement of official criminality or by the failure of citizens to effectively oppose it, liability is incurred by all”
“Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will”
“If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life.”
“Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.”

Source : "Bill Capodagli on “The Disney Way”: Part 2". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 19, 2016.

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