"Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled."

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John Milton

#Book Quotes #Censorship Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.”

Source : 'Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy' (1830) sect. 6 'Jeremy Bentham'
“You are surprised at your imperfections,--why? I should infer from that, that your self-knowledge is small. Surely you might rather be astonished that you do not fall into more frequent and more grievous faults, and thank God for His upholding grace.”
“He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.”

Source : 'The Dying Child'
“The great lesson of the Internet revolution is not that people never want personal service, just that they won't pay for personal service that does not add real value to the transaction.”
“...the finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.”
“Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.”
“Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.”
“Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet”

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