"Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs."

-- Glenn Greenwald

#Speech Quotes #Reason Quotes #Assault Quotes

“I knew early on that we needed to settle the food problem because if you can grow food it's empowering. In fact I believe growing food is one of the most dangerous occupations on the face of this earth because you're in danger of becoming free.”
“I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.”
“I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.”
“I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.”
“I hope that people who don't live with animals will appreciate that each animal is a unique individual with a rich inner life.”
“All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.”
“I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall still hear as long as the beast in me maintains its taciturn power to close my lids in tears, and my loins move yet in the ennobling pursuit of all the worlds you have left me alone in, and would be the dolorous distraction from, while you summon your army of anguishes which is a million hooting blood vessels on the eyes and in the ears at that instant before death.”
“Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliche, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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