#vic

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. ↗

— Ben Lindsey

#censorship #christ #first #great #jesus

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#families #free #fulfill #let us #live

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#critical #cutting #domestic #education #environmental

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#fail #invent #reformer #something #substitutes

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#assured #broad #consciousness #consecrates #conviction

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#conclude #further #i #need #operas

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence. ↗

— Eric Liu

#advocacy #anchor #babies #civic #comes

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them. ↗

— Titus Livius

#neither #nor #our #remedies #them

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free. ↗

— David Lloyd

#artists #create #escaping #few #free

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#amount #beings #computers #created #devices