"I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me"

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Hate Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Giving Quotes

“It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.”
“Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached.”
“For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.”

Source : "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Preface (20 May 1926), p. vii, 1926.
“I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.”
“He shifted his weight, throwing his good leg off the bed as if he were going to try to stand. â€œWhat are you doing?â€ I demanded through the tears. â€œLie down, you idiot, youâ€™ll hurt yourself!â€ I jumped to my feet and pushed his good shoulder down with two hands. He surrendered, leaning back with a gasp of pain, but he grabbed me around my waist and pulled me down on the bed, against his good side. I curled up there, trying to stifle the silly sobs against his hot skin.”
“I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.”
“Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.”
“Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom”

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