Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. – Mark Twain Category: Conformity
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. – Mark Twain, 1907, letter to Harriet E. Whitmore Category: Conformity
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause. – Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil Category: Conformity
If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty. – Ron Fournier Category: Politics
Upon comparing BBC News with CNN: Melodrama is something foreigners do. – Jslayeruk, “Random points,” post after July 2005 London subway bombings Category: Media
Dad said that he was prouder of me than hed ever been when I came out. – Randy Harrison Category: dad
