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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Profession : Activist

Nationality : American

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The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done.

As I’ve said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.