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“By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.”

“I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.”

“Sex is a conversation carried out by other means.”

“The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.”

“I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.”

“In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.”

Resonant Thoughts

"We have to provide food and shelter for the homeless, and oppose racial discrimination and promote civil rights, while also promoting equal rights for women. We have to encourage a return to tradition…"

— Pete Buttigieg

Politics1982

#justice

"The rights of a freeborn Englishman, which used to be secured to him by his native institutions, are no longer good enough. On pain of displeasing an outside world that lived under horrid tyrannies lo…"

— Enoch Powell

Politics1912–1998

#justice

"But we are here today because we know we cannot be complacent. For history travels not only forwards; history can travel backwards, history can travel sideways. And securing the gains this country has…"

— Barack Obama

Politics1961

#justice

"A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opin…"

— Václav Havel

Literature1920–1979

#justice