#gains

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#always #cheap #choices #continue #could

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#against #born #claim #connection #despite

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#development #equal #equal right #equity #eternal

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#among #classes #comfort #great #harsh

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth. ↗

— Max Frisch

#answer #best #convictions #everything #finds

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ↗

— Russell Hoban

#attack #attacked #being #chance #got

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed. ↗

— Julien Green

#always #am #end #i #i am

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#commands #contradiction #fully #god #great

The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work. ↗

— Michael Hayden

#did #made #really #safer #techniques

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#austere #constant #ever #government #learned