"Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture."

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Source : William Blackstone (1922). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books”, p.45, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

William Blackstone

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“The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.”

Source : Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications
“Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.”
“If someone else doesn't like your confidence, that's their problem. Why? You always come before they do, that's why.”
“If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though.”
“Africans only perceive themselves as victims.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.23, Cambridge University Press
“If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.”
“She's the princess. She commanded and I obeyed!"-Loki "You don't obey a suicide mission!"-Finn”

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