"The science is my passion, the policy work my social duty. I think there's no other issue in the world that causes such suffering and which could be improved simply by rethinking. Millions of people are in jail just because they used consciousness-altering substances without causing any harm to others. I think it is an affront to human rights and dignity. What you do with your consciousness is your own business."

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Source : Source: www.slate.com

Amanda Feilding

#Passion Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will fortify your own spiritual convictions you will find that many seemingly insuperable barriers in your life will crumble and dissolve in the waters of meditation. Your devotion and love for God will commingle with the devotion and love of others. Divine bliss will radiate from you, helping all persons you meet.”
“I hate having people sit in on meetings.”
“Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.”

Source : "Jack Abramoff Calls D.C. Politics Dirty As Ever". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 18, 2011.
“Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.”
“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.”

Source : "A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties & His Education", Vol. I by Claude Adrien Helvetius, translated by W. Hooper, 1777.
“Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.”
“Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.”

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