Today Quotes
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When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.Walter Lippmann
Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.The Talmud
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.John Tillotson
Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers.US Supreme Court
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it.Marquis de Vauvenargues
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.Earl Warren
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.Seneca
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.Plutarch
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.Jean Jacques Rousseau