politics

""It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the trouble is that the …"

"[A] great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges."

"[I]t is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the chang…"

"How can we fight censorship? How do we delegitimize its arguments? And how do we convince society that the excesses of freedom will always be less serious than those of censorship?"

"The struggle for freedom requires, first and foremost, a practical commitment."

"The only freedom we have left is to choose whose orders to follow."

"It’s a beautiful thing to find your book at a community book store that has raised you"

""Democracy is enshrined through human beings and societies. It is not something theoretical. It stems out of the aspirations of the people.""

""But there are two things that different kinds of people believe that are the worst, most dangerous, wrongest of all. Some people believe that the best way to solve a problem is with violence; they be…"

"Democracy is a system where people are counted but not weighed."

"Soun is noght but air y-broken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air y-broke."

"O saving Victim, opening wideThe gate of heaven to man below,Our foes press on from every side,Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow."

"Those animals which are incapable of making binding agreements with one another not to inflict nor suffer harm are without either justice or injustice; and likewise for those peoples who either could …"

"#* Hippolytus, Ref. haer. ix. 9 (Fragment 53). Context: "And that the father of all created things is created and uncreated, the made and the maker, we hear him (Heraclitus) saying, 'War is the father…"

"# War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free."

"The poems of Homer purported to describe events of the early heroic golden age of , but many of the economic customs Homer described were more characteristic of the late barbaric period, just before 8…"

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

"It involves cutting off the clitoris of girls of the same age in the community, usually by a traditional practitioner with crude instruments and without anesthesia."

"We have reached a point when the female circumcision is discussed in the community and demystified"

"... in the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards."