"I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die."

-- Emily Dickinson

#Giving Up Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Christ Quotes

“Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.”

Source : Louise Imogen Guiney (1897). “Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second”
“Look, donâ€™t get me wrong. I worship the ground this guy walks on. Iâ€™m excited to meet him tonight. Iâ€™m dying to meet him tonight. If he wanted to carry me off and make me his love slave, Iâ€™d do it, so long as I got advance copies of his books.”
“Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.”

Source : "How the NSA and FBI foil weak oversight" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2013.
“Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.”
“I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.”
“I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.”
“Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.”
“When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.”

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