"During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power."

-- Edward Alsworth Ross

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“The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.”
“If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses.”

Source : Source: www.popsugar.com
“In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didnt have any fear. I thought, This is easy. This is what Ive been waiting for. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.”
“I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.”

Source : "Paris in Love: A Memoir". Book by Eloisa James, April 3, 2012.
“It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.”

Source : "Antonio Tabucchi, Elegiac Italian Writer, Dies at 68" by Margalit Fox, www.nytimes.com. April 4, 2012.
“The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.”
“Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?”
“When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.”

Source : "Brought to book". www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2001.

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