"The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow."

-- George R. R. Martin

#Flames Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Casts Quotes

“A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed.”
“Your happiness is a gift because it literally brings out the best in you.”
“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”
“The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question”
“Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.”
“Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.”
“The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.”

Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”
“My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.”

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