"Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds."

-- Baruch Spinoza

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Independent Quotes

“Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.”
“Here's to the State of Mississippi,”
“The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.”
“The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year.”
“Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.”

Source : James Lovelock (2007). “The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity”, p.21, Penguin UK
“They're talking about kids who have grand mal seizures, and they've discovered that ***** eases that down to where these children can have a life. That right there, to me, says, 'Legalize it across the board!'”
“When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.”

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