"But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them."

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Source : George Fitzhugh, A. Hogeboom (1857). “A Controversy on Slavery Between George Fitzhugh and A. Hogeboom”, p.10

George Fitzhugh

#Men Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Protect Quotes

“I'm a fan of great storytelling.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.”
“We have an epidemic of fatherlessness here, and that's what I agree with the president [Barack Obama] on, and we should be doing more to promote and protect marriage as between a man and a women for the needs of our children.”
“I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.”
“It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity.”

Source : Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”
“We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.”
“Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.”
“I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.”

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