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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#compensate #cruel #discretion #display #employ

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#countrymen #mankind #world

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch. ↗

— Patti Smith

#artists #burdens #citizen #even #know

During the week I have workout every day from 9 to noon, then I get to rest, then back to the gym from 4:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. ↗

— Alicia Sacramone

#day #during #every #every day #get

The resistance does not mean that everyone can carry a weapon. The weapon is only for the people of the weapons. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#does #everyone #for the people #mean #only

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

#after #enslaved #most #people #possess

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#deny #faith #good #good faith #his

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#delights #depends #everything #imagination #joy

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#been #death #demand #human #i

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#fear #i #i wish #martyr #wish