"Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to that safety arising from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. That is the faith, the experimental faith, by which we Americans have undertaken to live."

-- Alexander Meiklejohn

#Wise Quotes #Loss Quotes #Safety Quotes

“I'm being a dad and a good husband.”
“If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.”

Source : Marcus Sedgwick (2009). “Ghosts and Gadgets”, p.185, Hachette UK
“Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.”
“You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?”
“I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.
“I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.”
“The 80s and 90s were the beginning of the hollowing out of the American little democracy. It started with Reagan and went to Bill NAFTA Clinton! Hey, but who's paying attention to history!? What's stunning is how many people think Trump is the beginning of fascism. He's the result of many, many years of corporate plunder and spineless Democrats and greedy, racist Republicans. The concentration of wealth, the monopolized media, basically a march toward a fractured Republic. We are broken!”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“The only 'anti-fascist' song that makes any sense to me is the Beatles' 'Love Is All You Need', because, quite simply, it's true.”

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