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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.


Thomas Mann


#considered #contradictory #democracy #equality #exclusive

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.


Jody Watley


#across #days #defy #get #i

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.


Simone Weil


#brute force #cannot #corpses #dead #easier

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.


Caspar Weinberger


#america #being #country #demonstrate #did

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.


Peter Weiss


#clogged #dead #even #generation #ideas

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.


Alfred North Whitehead


#done #ideas #keep #must #something

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.


Alfred North Whitehead


#catch #certain #decided #destinies #entertaining

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.


Francis Wright


#associated #basis #beneficial #consequent #departure

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.


Francis Wright


#attaching #belief #consequent #ideas #merit

Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.


Walter Jon Williams


#been #down #i #ideas #movies






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