"Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society."

-- Natan Sharansky

#Views Quotes #Squares Quotes #Being Free Quotes

“Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.”
“In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.”
“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.”
“Women and LBGT people have the advantage that they are everybody's son, daughter, cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle. They are in a position to change hearts, and you saw it happen actually. African-Americans, not so much. They are separated from the white oppressive population by geography, housing, segregation, centuries of slavery. There is a tremendous wall between black America and white. I would say you open the door with the force of law, and then you can start to change hearts.”
“For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.”
“I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.”

Source : "Meet the puppet master" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.
“We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.”

Source : A. G. Sertillanges (1987). “The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods”, p.213, CUA Press
“But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.”

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