"To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake..."

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Source : Letter to Camille Desmoulins on June 24, 1792. "Oeuvres de Camille Desmoulins", p. 76ff, 1874.

Jean-Paul Marat

#Wise Quotes #Taken Quotes #Reflection Quotes

“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”
“Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.”
“Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.”
“If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment”
“The rural Chinese in Henan Province mixed alcohol and business like you wouldnâ€™t believe. Perhaps as a result, they also had a charming nationalistic blind spot: they honestly believed they could out-drink everyone else on the planet. As an Irish-American who outweighed them by 50 pounds, I had come to find this both amusing and useful.”
“The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our daily lives and not create the world that everyone must live in. What we desire arranges the genetic code in all of our major crops and livestock. We cannot avoid participating in the creation, and it is in agriculture, far and away our largest and most basic artifact, that human culture and the creation totally interpenetrate.”

Source : Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.22, Counterpoint
“I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.”
“When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when we think of intellectual activity, we always imagine people sitting still, motionless. But mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.”

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