"No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint."

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Source : Leo Strauss (1978). “The City and Man”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

Leo Strauss

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“I came back to this idea of telling the stories of women who aren't in all of the history books. Their names are not up there next to male names that we've know since we were little kids. Ching Shih, for example, was a pirate commander from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. She was one of the most fearsome pirates, why is her name not included when we list the names of great pirates like Blackbeard?”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.”

Source : "Minister's second chance for stardom" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2004.
“Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprÃ¨me de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croÃ»tons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know.”
“Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.”
“The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves to be taken as seriously as any litterateur. Where they vary is in some cases not even accepting the distinction: Dylan in their eyes is a literary titan, and the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature is simply official affirmation of what they already knew.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.”
“Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.”
“Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.”

Source : Rally for the Ten Commandments, Hillsdale, Michigan, www.ontheissues.org. February 7, 2004.

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