"To some extent I liken slavery to death."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Philosophical Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!”

Source : Ada Cambridge (2015). “The Manor House: The Hand in the Dark and Other Poems”, p.192, Library of Alexandria
“And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.”
“The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.”
“The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”

Source : James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”
“It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.”
“I think I fell in love with you the first time I saw you, Molly mine. And when I look at you, thatâ€™s all Iâ€™m ever going to see, the woman I love. It doesnâ€™t matter if youâ€™re perfect. To me, you will be, and thatâ€™s all that counts. Itâ€™ll be that way always. Even years from now, when youâ€™re old and withered, Iâ€™ll see you with my heart, not my eyes. Thatâ€™s just the way it is when you love someone. The imperfections donâ€™t exist. If you see them at all, you think theyâ€™re beautiful.”
“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”
“... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the Spirit broods upon under the speaking of the Word - all that eternal intellectual activity isn't just daydreaming. It's the cause of everything that is. God doesn't find out about creation; he knows it into being. His knowing has hair on it. It is an effective act. What he knows, is. What he thinks, by the very fact of his thinking, jumps from no-thing into thing. He never thought of anything that wasn't.”

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