"Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves."

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Source : Hugo Grotius (1814). “The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations”, p.12

Hugo Grotius

#Liberty Quotes

“When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things, but isn't it better to walk with your head than to think with your feet, as it happens so frequently?”
“I can't help but laugh at all of you writing fake stories about me. I was not in any hit and runs. I don't drink so the DUI is false.”

Source : "Amanda Bynes Charged In DUI Case, Actress Pleads Innocence To Barack Obama". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.
“I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.”
“In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.”
“Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.”

Source : "The Complete Lyonesse" by Jack Vance, Gollancz (p. 449), 2000.
“The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher
“Everything I know, I learned from dogs.”
“I just can't fathom tweeting, and I'd rather spend my time writing a book than a blog, but I rather grudgingly agreed to a Facebook page. I had a brief, intense romance with Facebook. It's weirdly addictive, but anything that time-sucking is a danger for a writer who writes as slowly as I do. Now I post only occasionally and nothing very confessional. I think I'm carbon dating myself as I speak.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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