"There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch."

-- Harold MacMillan

#Safety Quotes #Might Quotes #Triggers Quotes

“A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define. "A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning. "Done," I said.”
“The idea we have of prison is a scary place that also houses crazy people. And, to me, it was like, none of these guys were scary. They may have done things that are violent or scary, but these are not people that I feel nervous being around, and it feels like to me that we're wasting these men's lives in prison.”
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
“Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.”
“We're still making Hot Chip records whilst doing these other things, so why not just try and make music you enjoy making rather than being tied down by things? It would just be crazy to not allow people to make music.”
“What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.”
“I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.”
“There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is other and larger than our own, yet which is most truly our own. For, to be ourselves, we must be more than ourselves. What we call love is, in truth . . . the losing of our individual selves to gain a larger self.”

Source : John Caird (1894). “An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion”

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