#fr

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies. ↗

— Keith Henson

#cost #cults #economy #employers #even

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved. ↗

— Keith Henson

#cults #current #environment #evolved #fraction

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#asked #astaire #cope #dance #face

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#any #being #compulsion #done #element

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#action #free #freedom #him #learn

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#pursuit #slavery #tool #way #wealth

When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. ↗

— Jack Herer

#american #american people #army #believe #believed

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. ↗

— Herodotus

#most #possessions #precious

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. ↗

— Herodotus

#alone #clear #equality #freedom #freedom of speech

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. ↗

— Herodotus

#fruit #gains #venturing