"In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box."

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Source : 'Hansard' 7 February 1828, col. 131

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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“There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Education can, and should be, dangerous.”

Source : Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.563, Seven Stories Press
“Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct â€“ but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man.”
“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”

Source : "On a wing and a prayer" by Maxie Szalwinska, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2007.
“We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.”
“When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.”
“The biblical case for vegetarianism does not rest on the view that killing may never be allowable in the eyes of God, rather on the view that killing is always a grave matter. When we have to kill to live we may do so, but when we do not, we should live otherwise.”

Source : "Animal Theology". Book by Andrew Linzey, 1994.
“I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.”

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