"Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Blood Quotes #Rights Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.”
“I am good in bed - I don't snore. I don't take the duvet. I just lay there and go straight off to sleep. That's all you want out of a bloke.”
“The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.”

Source : Jeffrey Sachs (2011). “The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime”, p.388, Penguin UK
“There is no company - no corporation on earth that engages in accounting fraud to the extent the Imperial Federal Government of the United Sates does. Not many congressmen are willing to come forward with the details.”
“Iâ€™m not really afraid to be my awkward self, and I know thereâ€™s lots and lots of other people just like me out there that are awkward themselves. And I think they just appreciate that Iâ€™m not afraid to say the weird things that I say and tweet the obnoxious things that I tweet. But Iâ€™ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best. I think you just be honest. I think people respond to honesty.”
“Jump for joy as we accomplish the dreams we adore.”
“Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.”
“It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.”

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