"Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress."

-- Isocrates

#Abuse Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Progress Quotes

“When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.”
“I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer.”
“Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.”
“Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.”
“If you cannot saw with a file or file with a saw, then you will be no good as an experimentalist.”
“a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought”

Source : 'A Defence of Poetry' (written 1821; published 1840)
“Comedy is the last refuge of the non-comformist mind.”
“Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.”

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