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You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient. ↗

— Katie MacAlister

#insanity #meredith #slow #vampires #change

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. ↗

— Frances Wright

#fact #in fact #liberty #soul #without

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny. ↗

— Frances Wright

#exert #expense #injury #justly #liberties

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers. ↗

— Frances Wright

#equal #equality #exercise #genius #how

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. ↗

— Frances Wright

#alike #appear #assertion #assign #assume

The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realise through that sin his true perfection. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#freedom #oscar #personality #prison #soul

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood? ↗

— Francis Wright

#been #civilized #civilized nations #engaged #enlightened

The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them. ↗

— Francis Wright

#conformity #creeds #hired #never #opinions

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. ↗

— Bern Williams

#necessity #something #spirit #thinks #your

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#between #change #choose #chose #early