"Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values."

-- Louis D. Brandeis

#Desire Quotes #Needs Quotes #Social Quotes

“If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.”

Source : "My discoveries weren’t any more extensive or alarming than most people’s. I just chose to look". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.
“Contention, especially violence, is not the way to deal with our problems. Unfortunately, television, videos, movies, and electronic games teach otherwise. Even cartoons and many children's programs depict violence in amusing ways, suggesting that no one really gets hurt and that any disagreement can be solved by a karate kick or the use of some weapon.”
“I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.”
“VOTE!!! Remember what the suffragists said when they finally won their long hard battle to get us the right to vote, knowing that they probably would never get to exercise the right or see the results; they said, 'this is not for ourselves alone.' It was for us and every generation of women to come. If we don't vote, we are ignoring history and giving away the future.”
“Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine...”
“One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.”
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching”
“Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity's future. I loved Spock.”

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