"Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Killing Quotes

“There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?”
“I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.”
“..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I canâ€™t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of othersâ€™ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.”
“My rule is to use whatever feels right at the moment and then break that rule if you want.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities.”

Source : Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586, 1940.
“The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.”
“It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared for it." I do not think that this is strictly true, for I occasionally sounded not a few naturalists, and never happened to come across a single one who seemed to doubt about the permanence of species.”
“Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.”

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