"In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder - is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?"

-- Frederic Bastiat

#Self Quotes #Law Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Source : FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Mar 17, 2017
“Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.”
“The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The Forgotten Man works and votes -generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay.”
“How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!”

Source : "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "Quotations", 1846.
“The romantics were reacting against a modern culture that divided individuals from themselves (through specialisation in the division of labor), from others (the competitive market place) and from nature, which had been reduced down to a machine through technology. The antidote to such division is unity and wholeness, which means feeling at home again in the world.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language and hope, who has made the decision to live, is determined to live, on the page and on the street, for me and mine.”
“If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you donâ€™t have the correct data.Â If you meet the people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you havenâ€™t got a heart.”
“Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.”

Source : Lorna Landvik (2003). “Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons”

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