Quote by Denis Diderot
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. – Denis Diderot

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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you cant deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. – Denis Diderot

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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. – Denis Diderot

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Freedom
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. – Plato

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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesnt work and then they get elected and prove it. – P. J. ORourke

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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. – Wendell Willkie

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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms. – Lord Byron

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I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So Ive done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasnt until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dads album after he died, then it was like That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band. – Dhani Harrison

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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. – P. J. ORourke

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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. – Confucius, Analects

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