Aptheker Jan Quotes & Sayings

Furthermore, we can understand those basic freedoms as rights partly because we can understand the reciprocal duty to respect them. My right to life is your duty not to kill me: and duties of non-encroachment and non-infliction are naturally upheld by morality and easily enforced by the law. However, — Roger Scruton

Why should we faint, and fear to live alone,
Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die? — Thomas Hardy

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. — Robert Greene

Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst. — Francis Bacon

How did one begin an adventure? Almost any road you took would lead there, if only you went on far enough. — Barbara Newhall Follett