How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.
- Walter E. Williams
The fact that I am writing to you in English, already falsifies what I wanted to tell you.
My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English, though I belong nowhere else.
- Gustavo Perez Firmat
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
- Alejandro Jodorowsk
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The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
- Ashley Montagu
The unfed mind devours itself.
- Gore Vidal