"No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private."

-- William Blackstone

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“To become a token woman--whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters--is to become something less than a mansince men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.”
“Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?”

Source : Jeremy Rifkin (2010). “The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis”, p.616, Polity
“I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.”
“Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.”
“Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.”
“Keep your character several steps ahead of your talent”
“We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.”

Source : Jean-Bertrand Aristide (2000). “Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization”
“The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.”

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