Helen Foster Snow quotes
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“... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.”
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“The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is stupidity and failure to understand anything about the creative mind. For a bureaucratic politician to presume to tell any artist or writer how to get his mind functioning is the ultimate in asininity.”
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“To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.”
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“Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.”
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“history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.”
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“The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.”
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“Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.”
-- Helen Foster Snow
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“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
Source : Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16
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Source : Abdus Salam, Ahmed Ali (1994). “Selected Papers of Abdus Salam: (with Commentary)”, p.306, World Scientific
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Source : A.V. Dicey, J.W.F. Allison (2013). “The Law of the Constitution”, p.230, Oxford University Press
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Source : "A Letter for McCain Supporters’ Eyes Only" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2008.
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