#light

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. ↗

— James Madison

#anywhere #darkness #despotism #done #everywhere

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. ↗

— James Madison

#best #crafty #dangerous #encroachments #every

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#clause #delightful #film #i #kind

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#else #everyone #fog #going #i

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#educate #flowers #good #good way #i

There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life. ↗

— Pete Maravich

#become #dedication #fade #fleeting #focus

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

#available #bars #complex #feel #hip

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#came #does #enlightened #examining #face

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie. ↗

— Berenice Marlohe

#fan #fiction #i #lights #like

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#children #delight #discovered #does #formed