#or

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. ↗

— Anatole France

#chance #did #ever #free #god

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. ↗

— Anatole France

#defining #him #makes #man #out

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved. ↗

— Marie de France

#before #city #cry #great #heard

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#against #believe #defendant #force #him

But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth. ↗

— Marie de France

#heart #love #nothing #passes #person

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously. ↗

— Marie de France

#anger #bear #cannot #dearest #fairest

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. ↗

— Marie de France

#authority #dead #divers #down #fashions

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#consider #humane #humans #inflicted #property

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#different #dogs #eating #else #enjoy

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? ↗

— Brendan Francis

#achieving #alone #cherished #deprived #dream