"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

-- Soren Kierkegaard

#Freedom Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“My strength has now been reduced to the equivalent of 36 squadrons...we should be able to carry on the war single-handed for some time if not indefinitely.”
“Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who have used it as a weapon to keep down the populace. It is a wonderful way of disciplining people and making them do what you want, to tell them that if they don't do what you want they will, for example, go to Hell.”
“What would people look like if we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time?”
“When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.”
“Substance and content over style and hype any day.”
“Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.”
“Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.”
“Where lies our salvation? You asked. We do not need any salvation. Does not our end lie on this beginning shore?”

Source : Kofi Awoonor (1987). “Until the morning after: selected poems, 1963-85”, Greenfield Review Pr

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