"There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law."

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Source : "Edward Snowden’s Motive Revealed: He Can ‘Sleep at Night’". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. May 28, 2014.

Edward Snowden

#Law Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #American History Quotes

“Fools give you reasons and wise men never try.”
“Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.”
“Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.”

Source : Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.50, Verso
“If slaughter houses had glass walls, would we even be having this debate?”
“A lot of people relate my success now with The Voice, and it has nothing to do with that. I've definitely worked my ***** off for a year afterwards trying to get that off of my forehead. If anything, it's actually harder to get labels to look at you when you come off a show like that, and it's harder for people to look at you like a real artist.”
“The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever”
“Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.”
“I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.”

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