"Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood."

-- George Washington

#Peace Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Blood Quotes

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
“Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by which it is prov'd, that the literal Sense does in reality authorize the stirring up Persecutions against the Cause of Truth, and that an erroneous Conscience has the same Rights as an enlighten'd Conscience.”

Source : Pierre Bayle, John Kilcullen, Chandran Kukathas (2005). “A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23: "Compel them to come in, that My house may be full"”, Liberty Fund Inc.
“A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.”
“Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering. It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethic, religious, political, and social conflicts.”

Source : Marc Bekoff (2013). “Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation”, p.310, New World Library
“Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.”
“rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.”
“To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing.”
“When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.”

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