#gal

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#any #dalai #dalai lama #freedom #freedom of speech

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#broken #drink #eat #galling #government

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#estate #fourth #gallery #realm #reporters

We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing. ↗

— William H. Macy

#emotionally #even #free #huge #huge thing

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#events #exclusive #formidable #impediment #knowledge

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#beltway #bus #decades #dust #eating

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#anyone #associate #behaves #differently #illegal

Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#congress #constitutional #constitutional amendment #desecration #empowered

It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest. ↗

— Chris Martin

#anyone #anything #band #egalitarian #get