"The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen."

-- Susette La Flesche

#Rights Quotes #Government Quotes #Law Quotes

“REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.”
“To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.”
“In order for us [people] to progress, we need brilliance and brilliance isn't fair and it's not polite and we can't grow it. It happens. Genius happens and it doesn't always happen in a zip code where we can access it. Therefore, we kind of need [Internet] not to keep tabs on everybody but we need to give them access to everybody else.”
“Give something back by becoming more”
“At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.”
“It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.”
“How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?”

Source : Pete Hautman (2008). “Godless”, p.233, Simon and Schuster
“To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.”

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