"If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state."

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Source : Source: law-journals-books.vlex.com

Philip Berrigan

#Law Quotes #Kind Quotes #Break Quotes

“We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won civil liberties. But first we must be able to bequeath to our children the most fundamental of all rights, which preconditions all others; the right to survival.”

Source : Nobel Price Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1985.
“Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.”
“We worked and worked, didn't get anywhere. That's how you know you're doing research.”
“Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.”

Source : George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.204, Dell
“The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.”
“In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like itâ€¦ Maybe I was irresponsible. But part of the pleasure of being alive is that I didnâ€™t take everything as seriously as one should.”

Source : "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.
“Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.”
“Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.”

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