"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."

-- Norman Mailer

#Freedom Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.”

Source : "Mother Angelica Live", www.imdb.com. (1983-).
“It's sweeping through our society faster than crack. [Except] with crack you could say, 'These people over here are doing it, adn these people aren't.' You can't do that with Ecstacy now. Everyone's doing it.”
“The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided variation on the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.)”

Source : Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.”

Source : "Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎" by Margot Fonteyn, (p. 81), 1975.
“I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.”
“You can't make homes out of human beings”
“Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.”

Source : Scott Berkun (2010). “The Myths of Innovation”, p.10, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.”

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