"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Wisdom Quotes #Peace Quotes #Freedom Quotes

“There is much to be said for solitude.”

Source : Douglas Kennedy (2013). “The Douglas Kennedy Collection #2: Temptation, The Woman in the Fifth, and Leaving the World”, p.444, Simon and Schuster
“The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.”
“...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.”

Source : Dinesh D'Souza (1996). “The End of Racism: Finding Values In An Age Of Technoaffluence”, p.89, Simon and Schuster
“I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another.”
“When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.”
“City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service. Loyalty of the usual sort-perhaps, but if it is true loyalty and service you seek, then you must abandon this fief and plan a grass-roots uprising.”

Source : "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. IX, 1938.
“The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag

You may also like:

Arthur C. Clarke
Film writer
Frank Herbert
Author
Isaac Asimov
Author
Philip K. Dick
Novelist
Poul Anderson
Author
Ray Bradbury
Writer
Robert Silverberg
Author
Roger Zelazny
Writer
Ursula K. Le Guin
Author