"Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery."

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Richard John Neuhaus

#Thinking Quotes #Progress Quotes #Regression Quotes

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”

Source : Walker Evans (2004). “Many are Called”, p.202, Yale University Press
“I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.”
“I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.”
“All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.”
“The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not whether swords will have to be unsheathed we know not whether blood will have to be shed we know not whether it will be an armed conflict we know not. But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot lose.”
“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”

Source : Benito Mussolini (1935). “Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions”
“I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.”

Source : "Socialist Francois Hollande defeats Nicolas Sarkozy in French presidential election", www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2012.
“But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.”

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