"My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position."

-- Jane Addams

#War Quotes #Order Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well.”
“When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.”
“Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.”
“The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.”

Source : Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”
“The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.”
“A whistle in the dark is still a whistle.”

Source : "Gideon Levy: The Most Hated Man in Israel - and the Most Heroic". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2010.
“It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.”
“I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.”

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