"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men."

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Source : "Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches".

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“Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.”
“You can say anything, anything, if it is beautifully said.”

Source : Patricia Duncker (1996). “Hallucinating Foucault”
“There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark: light out of the past. It was actually pleasant, I think, to hear a kindly voice agin, bringing up memories of wind, and trees, and sun on the grass, and such forgotten things.”
“We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.”
“My weapon isn't my shot. It's me.”
“I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!”
“There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.”
“God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.”

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