#cons

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child? ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

#constraints #freedom #memory #dreams

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#beautiful #choice #cinema #consequences #cost

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#conscience #dance #disco #go #just

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#cleaned #consumption #dirty #history #innocents

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector. ↗

— Donald T. Regan

#dishonest #done #federal #federal level #illegal

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#balance #behavior #consequences #environmental #hope

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#commune #conscious #contradiction #embrace #felt

It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated. ↗

— William Rehnquist

#bounds #court #declare #frustrate #frustrated

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms. ↗

— Robert Reich

#conservatives #police #radical #want

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives. ↗

— Robert Reich

#conservatives #even #last #liberal #majority