"The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine."

-- Martin Durkin

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“Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.”

Source : "Fictional character: Brother Alwyn Macomber". TV Series "Babylon 5" ("The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", 1997), www.imdb.com. 1994–1998.
“There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.”
“Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.”
“If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.”
“The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it.”

Source : "Shulamith Firestone obituary" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2012.
“You can't predict tomorrow. And because you can't predict tomorrow, you have to be realistic with what you have today. It doesn't mean don't enjoy yourself but enjoy yourself at the right time.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”
“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”

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