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Own Quotes by Learned Hand
- We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.
- Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no…
- It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the…
- It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong