"If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society."

-- Whitfield Diffie

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Long Quotes

“Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.”
“Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing. Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!”

Source : 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song
“To conform is to lose your soul”

Source : Joshua Ferris (2007). “Then We Came to the End: A Novel”, p.202, Hachette UK
“War is capitalism with the gloves off.”
“That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!”
“From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“Everything is a learning experience,”
“There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.”

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