"Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial."

-- John Ashcroft

#Reality Quotes #Elements Quotes #Denial Quotes

“I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned”
“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was â€œlegalâ€ and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was â€œillegal.â€ It was â€œillegalâ€ to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitlerâ€™s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If todayI lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.”
“I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.”
“To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.”
“That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.”
“Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.”
“Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.”
“Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.”

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