"An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before."

-- Jonathan Swift

#Weight Quotes #Reason Quotes #Idle Quotes

“The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.”
“The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for anything else, no matter how noble the cause, it becomes perverted and justice is weakened. Thus, the law has become perverted by stupid greed and false philanthropy.”
“I don't find myself to be the kind of person who is easily swayed.”
“...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.”

Source : Sarah Caudwell (2009). “The Sirens Sang of Murder”, p.18, Dell
“No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary.”
“Crimes spring from fixed ideas.”
“Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”
“No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'”

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