"In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Freedom Quotes #Ends Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.”

Source : Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.53, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who canâ€™t imagine it at all. I simply observe, and I observe in so many people, and often very quickly, a resignation that terrifies me, thatâ€™s it.”
“Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.”
“Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.”

Source : "Q&A: Curt Schilling". Interview with Ben Glicksman, www.si.com. November 30, 2010.
“The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.”
“If you want to correct your brother when he is doing wrong? you must keep yourself calm; otherwise you yourself may catch the sickness you are seeking to cure and you may find that the words of the Gospel now apply to you? 'Why do you look at the speck of dust in your brother's eye, and not notice the rafter in your own eye?'”
“You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door”
“Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.”

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