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I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another. ↗


— Samuel Johnson


#boswell #corrupt #corruption #freedom #johnson

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral. All social questions achieve their finality around that blade. The scaffold is an image. It is not merely a framework, a machine, a lifeless mechanism of wood, iron, and rope. It is as though it were a being having its own dark purpose, as though the framework saw, the machine listened, and the mechanism understood; as though that arrangement of wood and iron and rope expressed a will. In the hideous picture which its presence evokes it seems to be most terribly a part of what it does. It is the executioner's accomplice; it consumes, devouring flesh and drinking blood. It is a kind of monster created by the judge and the craftsman; a spectre seeming to live an awful life born of the death it deals. ↗


— Victor Hugo


#execution #executioner #france #scaffold #death

Duty to country extends far beyond active engagement in our armed forces. Duty should be in the hearts and minds of every American who believes in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Without duty, there is no freedom. Without freedom, there is no hope. Without hope, all else is lost. Together, we have the strength to sustain the freedoms we hold dearly. ↗


— Gregory E. Sapp


#duty #hope #war #war-on-terror #freedom

I wish I could show you the little village where I was born. It's so lovely there...I used to think it too small to spend a life in, but now I'm not so sure. ↗


— Mary Kelly


#small-town #life

Be the person you really are and not the person you'e allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Nikki. From 'Life Song ↗


— Christine M. Knight


#from- #life

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in front of you all your life. ↗


— Paul Hoffman


#bosco #break #cale #clever #even

Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. ↗


— Gao Xinjian


#writing-from-the-heart #writing-life #life

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away. - Clary Fray ↗


— Cassandra Clare


#clary-fray #love #mortal-instruments #love

Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come yet, something is here already. ↗


— Alan Paton


#alan-paton #cry-the-beloved-country #life

Of course, he didn't know anything about these Indonesians, or why they would have been there at this moment to save his life, but the fact that they had guns and weren't firing them at him implied that for the moment, at least, they were his dearest friends. ↗


— Orson Scott Card


#humor #life






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