"We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free."

-- William H. Seward

#War Quotes #Slavery Quotes #Bondage Quotes

“I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.”

Source : Rolling Stone interview, February 14, 2002.
“People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way.”
“I never really learned photography.”
“My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place.”

Source : Susan Hill (1986). “The Woman in Black”
“If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.”
“Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.”

Source : Julien Benda (1969). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”
“You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“Heaven is not for good people, it's for forgiven people.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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