#act

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#eclipse #fact #human #human reason #intolerance

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#god #practicing #punish #religion #reveal

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#act #arbitrary #atheists #could #creation

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#arise #because #body #enact #execute

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#attractive people #because #choose #i #i can

My characters always like themselves. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#characters #like #themselves

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie. ↗

— David Sedaris

#i #liked #movie #right #swedish

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity. ↗

— Kyra Sedgwick

#explore #feel #humanity #i #i feel

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly. ↗

— Kyra Sedgwick

#characters #deal #great #great deal #honestly

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me. ↗

— Kyra Sedgwick

#because #blown #blown away #character #embodied