A Quotes
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“All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.”
“All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.”
“All forms of landscape are autobiographical.”
Source: Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems
“All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to be more emotionally valuable to us. They are a currency that we find particularly precious, a language that delivers the message of love to our hearts with the most power. Some types of love are more thrilling and fulfilling to us when we receive them.”
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.”
Source: Rooftop Soliloquy
“All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.”
“All forms of procreation including birth and artistic endeavors are a response to the imminence of death. All acts of creation begin with termination of the old lifeless habits and the vigorous pursuit of life sustaining ideas.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.”
“All forms of sexual loving become acceptable if the lovers wear togas or wolfskins.”
“All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.”
“All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy”
Source: Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'
“All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.”
“All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.”
“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again. Writing is an act of self-affirmation. Each time that we place our thoughts onto paper, we receive a new opportunity to claim our reality. Writing is also an act of explication and deconstruction. Writing empowers us to shape and modify our fiery constitutions. Writing allows us to explore the essential ingredients that lead to a life of serenity by exhibiting compassion, love, patience, generosity, and forgiveness.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline.”
“All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.”
Source: The Consolation of Philosophy
“All four atomic fundamental forces had been identified: his body made me weak (weak force), the urge to smell him was always strong(strong force), my feelings for him impacted time(gravitational force) and his sexy brain (electromagnetic force)”
Source: Time
“All four days I didn't think. I just hit. Squeaky (Medlen, his caddy) said 'kill' and I killed it.”
“All four Gospel writers specifically cite Jesus rejecting the accepted cultural norms and treating women with respect. Not only did he break rabbinic laws of his day by teaching and talking to women, but he allowed women to touch him—including those considered “unclean” by the culture at large.”
Source: Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
“All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.”
Source: A Short History of the World
“All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.”
“All four of us gasped at the same time—the tree reached the ceiling and curled down at least a foot! What were we to do now?”
Source: Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir
“All four of us were young and undaunted and our smiles were so strong that it made me smile even then on the couch, with a kind of loss.”
Source: Underdog
“All four seasons in my life are always heavier, year after year. Every day of my life is filled with uncertainties. I am free-falling, not knowing where I am going to end up. Although everything is closing in on me, I keep going. Most times, it is hard, but I try to keep a little hope and press on.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“All four winds together can't bring the world to me Shadows cast a play of light, so much I want to see Chase the sun around the world, I want to look at life-In the Available Light. I'll go with the wind, I'll stand in the light.”
“All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.”
“All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others, or than they themselves after they have lost their freedom.”
Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
“All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.”
“All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.”
Source: Essays, English and American
“All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'”
“All free or none free.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.”
“All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”
Source: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected works in one volume
“All freedom comes from discipline.”
“All freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there, as when they “free” wild animals into nature preserves only to contain them yet again by larger borders. But I took it anyway, that widening. Because sometimes not seeing the bars is enough”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.”
“All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe in it. Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people who believe in democracy be safeguarded if those who seek to destroy it abuse rights and freedoms to achieve their goals?”
“All Freemasonry should be disbanded in America because our organization has been infiltrated by the Illuminati and they have bad intention for America and the World.”
“All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.”
Source: The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How
“All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.”
“All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.”
“All friends are not the same. We have true friends and we have fake friends. Which one are you? Which one do you have?”
Source: Who Is Your Friend?: The School Of Friendship
“All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper; we all have hidden sides. And there's some secrets we don't even reveal to ourselves.”
Source: Bound to Accept
“All friends shall taste The wages of their virtue, and all foes The cup of their deserving”
Source: King Lear
“All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help”
“All friendships are negotiations of power.”
Source: White Cat
“All friendships naturally change over time. But, like crushes, braces, and pimples, friendship changes are especially common in middle school.”
Source: Middle School - Safety Goggles Advised: Exploring the WEIRD Stuff from Gossip to Grades, Cliques to Crushes and Popularity to Peer Pressure
“All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman [sic] can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.”
“All, from the Queen in her palace down to the pauper in the workhouse, all must fight if they would be saved.”
“All front-line combat jobs in the infantry, special operations units and elsewhere are now open to women.”