"The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be."

-- John Stuart Mill

#Despotism Quotes

“I see you have wavey hair....its waveing goodbye!”
“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.”

Source : Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”
“With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don't think it's human to become an agent of the angel of death.”
“Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.”

Source : Jeramey Kraatz, Adam Rex, Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson, Tim Green (2012). “Class Acts Kids' Ebook Sampler”, p.55, Harper Collins
“I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened.”
“Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.”
“I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.”
“I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.”

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