"Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness."

-- Samuel Adams

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“I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised it. I had no idea he would shoot. It was common to hold a pistol to the head of prisoners during questioning. So I prepared to make that picture - the threat, the interrogation. But it didn't happen. The man just pulled a pistol out of his holster, raised it to the VC's head and shot him in the temple. I made a picture at the same time. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)”
“How much freedom I have depends on the number and nature of my options. And that, in turn, depends both on the rules of the game and on the assetts of the players: it is a very important and widely neglected truth that it does not depend on the rules of the game alone.”

Source : Gerald Allan Cohen (1995). “Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality”, p.54, Cambridge University Press
“If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.”
“A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.”
“The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.”
“To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 16, 2018
“The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.”

Source : William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.274
“It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.”

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