"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom."

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Source : Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.140, University of Chicago Press

Clarence Darrow

#Peace Quotes #Life And Love Quotes #Freedom Quotes

“This isnâ€™t happening to you, princess,â€ Sabine snapped before I could do more than shake my head. â€œThis is happening to us. While you spent the past few months prancing around in ignorant bliss, we were all being possessed, or kidnapped, or stalked by this hellion. So dry your tears and take off the tiara, because this is a call to arms, not a pity party. Youâ€™re not going to find any sympathy here.”
“I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.”

Source : "Conversation: Chris Thile and the Goat Rodeo Sessions". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 25, 2012.
“Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?”
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”
“I love motorcycles and riding bikes. Like a lot of riders, I look at a bike like it's an iron horse - a living thing that you have to build a relationship with - and that bike is my horse.”
“The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.”
“I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.”
“A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.”

Source : Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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