"If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval."

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Charles Sanders Peirce

#Giving Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Speech Quotes

“Angel: And what will you do with the world, once it is yours?' N. Hob: 'Punish it, for not loving me.”
“Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?”
“The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same with that of the king of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the land and naval forces, as first general and admiral ... while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies - all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature.”
“Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry.”
“I can be absolutely comfortable with an apocalyptic Jesus because he was simply wrong. As long as he's wrong I don't worry about him, and basically everyone else who was announcing in the year 2000 at midnight, the end of the world is coming, I expect them to be wrong. Now if they're right of course, I'll be very uncomfortable that night. But as long as everyone for 2000 years has been wrong about the apocalypse, I can be quite comfortable with it. It's space fiction.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“I'm the kind of person who always wants more.”
“The solar system is off center and consequently man is too ...”

Source : Harlow Shapley (1969). “Through rugged ways to the stars”
“In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.”

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