"[ Alexis de] Tocqueville said it in 1835, and it's as true today as it was then: 'Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is more needed in democratic societies than in any other.'"

-- Paul Kengor

#Liberty Quotes #May Quotes #Today Quotes

“Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.”

Source : Elijah Muhammad (1973). “Message to the Blackman in America”, p.33, Secretarius MEMPS Publications
“Columbia students called me a baby killer, but remained silent for Ahmadinejad. I'm not sure if that was out of fear for the Iranian president or admiration.”

Source : "Free Speech For All?" by Alicia Colon, The New York Sun, September 28, 2007.
“Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.”
“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”

Source : John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket
“All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.”

Source : Nora Raleigh Baskin (2009). “Anything But Typical”, p.187, Simon and Schuster
“That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”

Source : A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 5 (1896)
“Passion is a young manâ€™s game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, youâ€™re around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Donâ€™t try to act like youâ€™re young. You could really hurt yourself.”
“Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.”

Source : Lynne Reid Banks (1995). “The Secret of the Indian”

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