"Freedom is always wise."

-- Alexander Meiklejohn

#Wise Quotes #Congress Quotes

“Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.”
“We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.”
“No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.”
“What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.”
“By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly legacy of slavery-teaching our children that some lives are inherently less precious than others.”
“There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.”
“Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.”
“When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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