Libertatem Defendemus Quotes & Sayings

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone. And I believe they may be the things that mean most to you, and that even your own child would have to know in order to know you well at all. — Marilynne Robinson

And then you realize that when you finally meet, when you finally find
each other, it doesn't matter. All the rest of it doesn't matter. Life scattered, life together. . . it's just
where things begin. It's where the story is when you jump into it. It doesn't stay there. You start
writing the next chapter from that moment on. — Donna Kauffman

Different religions meet the needs of different people — Dalai Lama

There is indeed a great deal of futility amongst the human race which we do not commonly see, for it all forms part of our illusion; but let a man be much annoyed by something that others do, so that he is separated from them and has to leave them, and looks back at what they are doing, and he'll see at once all manner of whimsical absurdities that he had not noticed before; and Ramon Alonzo in the shade of his oak, waiting for the noon to go by, grew very contemptuous of the attitude that the world took up towards shadows. — Lord Dunsany

On things like censorship, I think everything should be allowed on television. You know, I mean anything. I don't know who believes that anymore. Every left wing party says there should be some degree of censorship, that some things are bad taste. But it's unjustifiable for anyone to decide what is bad taste. — Richey Edwards

The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end. — Ernest Thompson Seton

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. — Milton Friedman

The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality. — Kim Stanley Robinson