"The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being."

-- Thomas I. Emerson

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Expression Quotes

“We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.”

Source : James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”
“The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.”
“Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.”
“I want to be someone who is respected and not just in terms of my music. I want to be respected in terms of the way that I treat people... Music is my creative outlet in terms of expressing what is important to me; what has importance, what has a value. And I wanna be respected for that.”
“Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.”
“When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.”
“When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are.”
“I would like to do some musicals.”

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