"In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity"

-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#People Quotes #Humanity Quotes #World Quotes

“Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.”
“Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.”
“The constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the decision as to what views shall be voiced in the hands of each of us, in the hope that the use of such freedom will ultimately produce a more capable citizenry and more perfect polity and in the belief that no other approach would comport with the premise of individual dignity and choice upon which our political systems rests.”

Source : "Schaefer v. United States, 251 U.S. 466". Dissenting opinion, 1920.
“You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, andâ€” Just tired. So am I.”
“There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.”
“What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.”

Source : Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Française: Storm in June”, Vintage
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“Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell.”

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