"When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues."

-- Thomas Friedman

#Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes #Say Anything Quotes

“Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.”
“When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke.”
“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.”

Source : Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX
“Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.”
“Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.”

Source : Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.
“[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims lies in their observance of the God-made law.”

Source : "The Islamic Law & Constitution". Book by Abul A'la Maududi, Islamic Books, p. 74, 1980.
“Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.”
“When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.”

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