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- I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- O! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! - Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
- Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.
- Elisha Potter
- I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
- William Hart Coleridge
- The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
- Hilton Kramer
- I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
- Henry P. Fairchild
- Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
- Martin Niemoeller
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