"It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority."

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Source : Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.9, VM eBooks

Lord Acton

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“When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.”

Source : 'The Man of Mode' (1676) act 2, sc. 2
“God is almighty to pardon, but He will not use His power for a shameless sinner. He is able to save and help in time of need, but if you have not repented, how can you expect His aid? The same power God expends on the believer's salvation will be spent on your damnation, for He has bound Himself under oath to destroy every impenitent soul.”
“If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?”
“Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.”
“For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe.”
“Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and repose in himself, his liberty to dare and do what he pleaseth, his alacrity in the midst of fears, his invincible temper, are advantages which make him master of fortune.”

Source : "The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D". Book edited by Bertram Dobell, London: Bertram Dobell, p. LVII, "Christian Ethicks" (1675), 1903.
“A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.”
“Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.”

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