"If we don't bear witness as citizens, as……" — Jane Rule
"If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence."
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21 Quotes by Jane Rule
Jane Rule has 21 quotes on this site.
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Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
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Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking…
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I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for…
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To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
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Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
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The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability…
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If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would…
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I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with…
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Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
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Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
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Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some…
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It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will…
— Teresa of Avila
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
— Teresa of Avila
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear…
— Lord Acton
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the…
— Lord Acton
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I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a…
— Amy Adams
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
— Honore de Balzac
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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