"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive."

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Source : "The Problem of Dissent". "Saturday Review" Magazine, Volume 48, December 1965.

Henry Steele Commager

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Patriotism Quotes

“As is well known, [Carrie Fisher] suffered - and was open about it. Her transparency was courageous, which is why people loved her.”
“There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man, and he drank water; and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.”
“I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.”

Source : "My Brother and Other Profiles" by Alec Waugh, 1967.
“The Bible talks about how God uses difficult situations to develop our character and get us stronger. The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. But out of that darkness, out of that disappointment in my life, that's what God used to push me into another level of victory or another level of ministry that I never knew I had.”
“When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.”
“I was in disbelief that Iâ€™d just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. Bella Swan”
“A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.”
“If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist â€” he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.”

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