#bertie

Perhaps they'd been conditioned by all the quarantines and blackouts, all the invisible boundaries CSIRA erected on a moment's notice. The rules changed from one second to the next, the rug could get pulled out just because the wind blew some exotic weed outside its acceptable home range. You couldn't fight something like that, you couldn't fight the wind. All you could do was adapt. People were evolving into herd animals. Or maybe just accepting that that's what they'd always been. ↗

— Peter Watts

#humans #seligman #the-state #change

I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law. ↗

— Paul Martin

#bill #canada #civil #equals #i

I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law. ↗

— Paul Martin

#equals #i #land #law #liberties

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american #american history #arc #civil #civil liberties

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. ↗

— Marquis de Lafayette

#american people #clergy #destroyed #ever #fall

When we lose our liberties, it does not happen in one dramatic moment, but gradually and quietly. ↗

— John E. Moss

#dramatic #gradually #happen #liberties #lose

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#designed #different #different things #films #gain

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#enlarged #forms #free #good #government

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#everyday #flag #liberties #represents #values