"A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom."

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Source : Chris Hedges (2005). “Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

Chris Hedges

#Lying Quotes #Mean Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.”
“Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.”
“There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.”

Source : Jon Ronson (2011). “The Psychopath Test”, p.170, Pan Macmillan
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

Source : The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)
“You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?”
“Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.”
“I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.”

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