Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Helen Rowland

Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.

Abraham Lincoln

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Audre Lorde

There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

David Rudisha

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

Joni Mitchell

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Jonathan Sacks

And thus I clothe my naked villanyWith odd old ends stolen out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

William Shakespeare

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

C.S. Lewis

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Martin Mull

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw Lec