#ld

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#again #could #i #i think #illegal

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#available #case #cultural #ideologies #matter

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#carelessness #falsehood #intentionally #lying #more

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. ↗

— Mark Twain

#finish #hang #human #human race #like

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enjoyment #equality #greatly #happiness #human

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#forbear #pain #pleasure #who #would

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#be happy #better #case #general #happy

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#anything #coach #could #except #gym

I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#choose #feeling #few #few people #good

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#could #i #like #locked #locked up