“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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“But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

“In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“Without music life would be a mistake.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“Liberty is the nominal goal of Rousseau's thought, but in fact it is equality that he values, and that he seeks to secure even at the expense of liberty.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

“Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“In fact my popularity seemed almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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