quotes about Freedom Of Thought

“We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen. Nothing did. “This isn’t good,” Quen said. I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.”

“To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.”

“When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.”

Source : "Inspired Economics" by Margaret Mason, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 1990.

“Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.”

“Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's gone”

Source : Ilsa J. Bick (2011). “Ashes”, p.269, Carolrhoda Lab ™

“In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.”

Source : Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”

“Evolution was Vladimir Ilich Lenin's problem. Lenin lead the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and took over Russia. He killed the Zar [ sic ] and his family in cold blood. There would not be communism in Russia today if had not been for Charles Darwin's book on evolution.”

“The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours...”

Source : Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

“I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.”

“Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'”

Source : Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.14, Vintage