"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies."

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Source : Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.341

Wendell Phillips

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“Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.”

Source : Aron Ralston (2004). “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Basis of the Motion Picture 127 Hours”, p.245, Simon and Schuster
“No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.”
“If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.”
“The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.”
“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”
“I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.”

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