"The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty."

-- Edward Dahlberg

#Liberty Quotes #Regulation Quotes #Understood Quotes

“There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the former as something in physical space but not the latter. Actually √-1 is a much simpler concept.”
“I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.”
“I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?”
“I do think there is a strange idea that the media has that if you tell the public what you think, they can no longer think for themselves.”
“One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbol of status nullifies its fundamental aims; therefore at the center of my own adherence to to this ranginess in taste is that it doesn't add up to membership in a private club. The differences choose me. There are so many approaches, so many innovative moves, so many oddly shaped ears in the field; may they never sing in unison.”
“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.”
“I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.”
“But I think that I'm just a normal girl, you know.”

Source : "Donna Summer: 'Then I sought help'". Interview with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2003.

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