#right

To-day, in more than half of Europe, man is at the mercy of the police; in 1900 even the most conservative and reactionary Prussian Junker would have been unable to imagine, let alone approve, that a citizen could be arrested and kept in prision at the pleasure of the Government. ↗

— Salvador de Madariaga

#imagination

We are what we believe we are! ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#bright #inspirational #truth #inspirational

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#praise #right #inspirational

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ↗

— John Cage

#i #ideas #new #new ideas #old

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people. ↗

— Helen Keller

#women-s-rights #inspirational

Sometimes things have to go very wrong before they can be right. ↗

— Samantha Freber

#right #wrong #inspirational

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#been #cruelest #forms #government #hoax

Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#american #american people #chance #good #like

We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character. ↗

— Luke Scott

#agree #amendment #another #around #character

Perhaps you'll apprentice to a healer when you're older," Grete suggested. "I'd say you have the gift for it." Hen reddened, then seemed suddenly fascinated with a speck on her shoe. "Be nice to have a gift for something," she said after a moment. "But they don't let girls apprentice, now, do they?" Grete harrumphed. "A bunch of fools, the lot who came up with that system. You lose half the world's brainpower that way. ↗

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

#women-s-liberation #women-s-rights #women-s-strength #inspirational