"A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American."

-- Edward Abbey

#Risk Quotes #Minorities Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?”

Source : On being approached by the secretary of the Athenaeum, which he had been in the habit of using as a convenience on the way to his office; attributed
“I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl ...”

Source : Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.159, Carcanet
“I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.”
“We'll all see through Mourinho. We'll find out he's just a Bengal lancer.”
“Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.”
“You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.”
“Women have been kicking ***** for centuries.”
“Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.”

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