#sen

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#above #camps #concentration #day #every

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist. ↗

— Peter Singer

#freedom #good #instance #morally #over

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while. ↗

— George Grosz

#discharged #few #free #free man #given

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. ↗

— Christian Slater

#boundaries #come #does #imitate #life

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#criticism #freedom #greatest #greatest threat #threat

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#advent #conveys #message #much #poem

I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#clean #communities #country #dakota #drinking

My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#challenge #church #episcopal #i #member

The only person you resent is yourself. ↗

— John Hewson

#person #resent #you #yourself

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action. ↗

— Helen Suzman

#am #fan #i #i am #now