"I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly."

-- Adam Michnik

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“Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime.”

Source : Harry Kalven (1989). “A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America”, HarperCollins
“Feel the feeling as though the prayer has already been answered, and in that feeling we are speaking to the Forces of Creation, allowing the world to respond to us.”
“Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.”
“Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.128
“Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper...”
“You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.”
“You know itâ€™s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.”

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