I Quotes
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“In a fraction of a moment we fall in love, we break up, we live out a love story that lasts until the end of time. We are soulmates, we are adversaries, we are everything. We are nothing. We are at our fullest potential of every possibility. We are supposed to cross paths for one reason or another. Sometimes we don’t know the reason until it’s far behind us.”
Source: Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal
“In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.”
“In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious, unconscious, things which in a fragrant of a second you can react to: we can all imagine why this capacity was given to us as human beings - I guess to survive. Architecture to me has the same kind of capacity. It takes longer to capture, but the essence to me is the same. I call this atmosphere. When you experience a building and it gets to you. It sticks in your memory and your feelings. I guess thats what I am trying to do.”
“In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.”
Source: Life
“In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes.”
Source: Life
“In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.”
“In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.”
Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
“In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.”
Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
“In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.”
“In a free country, America, or India, and Japan, and many places, democracy country, free country, but still within the sort of rule of law, some injustice, some sort of problems, some discrimination, and also some sort of scandals or the corruptions. These things, you see, they are always in my mind, I think many people agree, lack of moral principle.”
“In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.”
“In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.”
“In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.”
“In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.”
Source: Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814
“In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.”
Source: The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788
“In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects. The degree of security in both cases, will depend on the number of interests and sects; and this may be presumed to depend on the extent of country and number of People comprehended under the same Government.”
Source: The Federalist
“In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“In a free society men and women should not be prevented by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be effective.”
“In a free society, people may be entitled to their belief, but they are not entitled to bigotry. To the bigots, this may seem like tyranny, but it's an absolute necessity, just like it is absolutely imperative that psychopathic murderers are kept off the streets.”
Source: Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law
“In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.”
Source: The good society
“In a free society there is always pressure to change it and make people less free. Leaders either move to the right with fascism or move to the left with socialism. In both cases, these movements meet at a dystopian place called collectivism. Ultimately it is about subjugation and taking away individual rights, liberties and freedoms and handing them to an elite few.”
Source: Distilled Thoughts
“In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that and don't belong to those groups or associate with those people.”
“In a free society we're supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.”
“In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed to suppression and control by governmental authority see this as leading only to chaos. But a government of the people requires difference of opinion in order to discover truth and to take advantage of the opportunity that only understanding brings.”
“In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.”
“In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does.”
“In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.”
“In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.”
“In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?”
“In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others.”
“In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil”
Source: An economist's protest: columns in political economy
“In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“In a free society, the “vision thing” is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a “visionary” bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government [...] the poorer and less free the people.”
“In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.”
“In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.”
“In a free society, you get what you celebrate.”
“In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.”
“In a free system any large, popular, revolutionary movement should be able to bring about its ends by such a voluntary process. As more and more people see how it works more and more will wish to participate in or support it. And so it will grow, without being necessary to force everyone or a majority or anyone into the pattern.”
Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia
“In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.”
“In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything”
Source: Oppenheimer
“In a French accent developed through a lifetime of using English I said, 'Hello sir, I would like to row the English Channel in a bath please.'
What actually arrived in the ear of the French Navy man was, 'Hello sire, I would like to fight a condom across a bath if you please.”
Source: In the Bath: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbing
“In a frenetic whirlwind we chop and dice and mince, turning anything we can think of into a possible pizza topping, and packing them all in small hotel pans in the rolling coolers we use for field shoots. When the dough has risen, I roll out fifty twelve-inch rounds, separating each with sheets of parchment, and stacking them in sheet pans, a rotini with a creamy sauce with ham and peas, and a simple rigatoni with vegetables in a light tomato sauce. Patrick discovers a big bowl of leftover risotto from Friday's testing, and heats up the deep fryer, yelling at me to set up a breeding station so he can do some arancini. While he is frying the little rice balls, I grab a huge prep bowl and fill it with romaine, shaved Parmesan, croutons and crispy capers, and I mix together a quick peppery pseudo-Caesar-style dressing.”
Source: Off the Menu
“In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“In a front of each home garden the villagers fixed a triangular wooden lamp-house on the top of a pole planted on the ground to hold a small statue of Lord Buddha and some deities. They used to offer flowers at this small shrine and light a tiny clay oil lamp.”
Source: The Master's Daughter
“In a fruitless year, take a fearless heart
Those who bloom late will light sparks through the dark”
“In a fucked up world, creativity is our badass remedy, stitching our wounds and offering an escape route. It's not just art; it's a rebellion that saves lives and kicks the soul into healing.”
“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.”
Source: Voces reunidas
“In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“In a functional civilized society built on the premise of peace, guns belong only in the hands of combat personnel, not in the hands of regular civilians, not in the hands of politicians, not even in the hands of billionaires.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society