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“Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.”
Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, Da Capo Press
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“The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.”
Source : Abe Fortas (1968). “Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience”
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“Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought”
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“What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
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“Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot”
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“A person only likes his friend to the degree he or she relates and connects to his character.”
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“A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.”
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“Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.”
Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.
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“When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.”
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“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
