#slight

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#armed #army #camp #casual #citizens

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#cannot #destroyed #either #generously #heavy

We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#always #denied #deny #having #link

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security. ↗

— George McGovern

#iraq #national #national security #neither #nor

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#broadcast #declining #foreseeable #foreseeable future #future

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#amusing #another #been #delivery #i

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#because #british #christian #discrimination #evangelical

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. ↗

— Herbert Read

#evolution #form #higher #i #individuation

The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#excursions #experience #extra #home #kinds

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply. ↗

— David Remnick

#apply #better #could #faster #good