"I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world."

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Source : Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.10, Cosimo Classics

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#Law Quotes #Rights Quotes #Justice Quotes

“The saxophone was created to mimic the human voice and I think that's why I gravitated toward the saxophone eventually. I'd loved the clarinet, but there's something about the saxophone that just grabs you.”
“When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through listening to Art who was courting me by reading me Little Nemo and Krazy Kat by George Herriman. It was really very effective.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.”
“Love is...like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gift." All that I am is something that's given, and given freely. Being doesn't cost anything. There's no price tag, no strings attached.”
“and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.”
“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves”

Source : Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company
“First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.”

Source : Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton
“The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.”

Source : Fred Alan Wolf (1999). “The Spiritual Universe: One Physicists Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter, and Self”, p.26, Red Wheel/Weiser

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