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Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible… — Thomas Jefferson
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate… — Thomas Jefferson
To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression. — George Washington
Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly… — Thomas Paine
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs. — Isaac Asimov
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. — Ray Bradbury
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing… — Ray Bradbury
All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman canâ€™t defy.… — Bobby Sands
Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another… — Sigmund Freud
It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the… — James Madison
Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and the manner of… — James Madison
The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the… — Ida B. Wells
The New World Order is a world that has a supernational authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the… — Willy Brandt
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but… — B.F. Skinner
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that… — Allan Bloom
To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt… — John Stuart Mill
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own… — Max Horkheimer
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing… — Herbert Marcuse
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says… — Michel Foucault
The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the… — Gilles Deleuze

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