"If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay."

-- Robert Green Ingersoll

#Intellectual Quotes #Liberty Quotes #World Quotes

“The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.”
“When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.”
“Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.”

Source : Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title
“To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.”
“Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.”
“Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.”
“I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.”

Source : Jane Hamilton (2014). “The Book of Ruth”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties.”

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