"Give me liberty or give me death.' A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into." -Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill"

-- Katherine Applegate

#Giving Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Earth Quotes

“He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland and Buzot, as if they were beneath his notice. August 10 was illegal, he says; so too was the taking of the Bastille. What account can we take of that, in revolution? It is the nature of revolutions to break laws. We are not justices of the peace; we are legislators to a new world.”
“That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.
“You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
“I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.”
“If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution.”

Source : "Greg Abbott's War". Interview with Jake Silverstein, www.texasmonthly.com. September 2012.
“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?”
“I am Saâ€™kagÃ© a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am Shadowstrider. I am the Scales of Justice. I am He-Who-Guards-Unseen. I am Shadowslayer. I am Nameless. The coranti shall not go unpunished. My way is hard but I serve unbroken. In ignobility nobility. In shame honor. In darkness light. I will do justice and love mercy. Until the king returns I shall not lay my burden down.â€ --(Durzo Blint to Jorses Alkestes, quoted to Skylar at the edge of Ezra's Forest.)”
“The Anthropocene essentially would be the time of human influence on the planet. That's controversial though, because geology is a retrospective discipline. The rocks of the Anthropocene haven't been deposited yet, really.”

Source : "What's The Anthropocene?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2016.

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