Quotes with thought-tyrants

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  • Søren Kierkegaard People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Carl Lewis People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Ben Foster People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that was just his mug - and I inherited it.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Bill Forsyth Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Audre Lorde Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 37
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Carl Bernstein Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Helps Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Thomas Arnold Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Cesare Pavese Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see?
    Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be
    And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest
    Stranded in the park and forced to confess
    To hiding on the Backstreets.
    Born To Run (1975) Backstreets
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Robert Conklin Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.
    Robert Conklin
    American teacher, writer
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  • Thomas Jefferson Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Justice William O. Douglas Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
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