"To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony."

-- Frederick Douglass

#Men Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Irony Quotes

“I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.”
“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”
“The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties...”
“In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.”
“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
“Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.”

Source : Kenneth Minogue (2000). “Politics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.13, Oxford Paperbacks
“That's progress: when we prove things wrong.”

Source : "My wish: Find the next Einstein in Africa". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.
“My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.”

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