#ren

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#brethren #country #good #mankind #world

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#come #i #live #must #my time

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#despotism #fear #power #resistance #strength

No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#album #am #artist #be true #change

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents? ↗

— Carl Paladino

#bit #died #entitled #families #ground

Every woman is just a different kind of problem. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#different kind #every #just #kind #problem

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#different #different person #different place #i #if i could

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#awful #beginning #brighter #coming #dark

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#coverage #difference #martyrdom #only #press

I loved playing Shaun, he's not that different from me. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#i #loved #loved playing #me #playing