"The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose."

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Source : Semayne's Case (1603)

Edward Coke

#Home Quotes #Castles Quotes #Violence Quotes

“The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.”
“You wouldn't let him do it, would you, Jamie?" Jamie's expression was very serene. She stared at Andrew when she spoke to her husband. "With your permission, I would like to answer him." "You have it," Alec replied. "Andrew," she called out in a voice as cold and clear as a frigid winter morning, "my husband does whatever he wishes to do. I am sometimes allowed to help, though. If he decides to cut off your feet, I will, of course, offer him my assistance.”
“We're targeted as LGBTQ people because we make people nervous around sex and we practice desire or have the possibility of practicing desire in magical and very, very profound ways. We shouldn't be giving up the possibility of articulating the claim of our body and the claim of our desire as something distinctive and erotically profound.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
“Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.”
“Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.”
“I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.”
“It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.”

Source : "Who's Getting Your Vote?". reason.com. November 1, 2004.

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