#pro

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#burned #defended #full #history #ideas

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#big #center #eye #fortunate #hear

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines. ↗

— Bobby Seale

#came #coalitions #complete #crossed #down

In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#because #claim #entire #everybody #hold

The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated. ↗

— Peter Malkin

#because #being #does #even #here

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#beings #created #creator #dishonor #divine

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie. ↗

— Louis Malle

#any #boy #destroyed #feel #further

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined. ↗

— Jena Malone

#intertwined #lives #personal #professional #too

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#game #name #objective #opponent #primary

I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state. ↗

— Joe Manchin

#any #expect #governor #i #never