William Blake Quotes
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
Quotes to Explore
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.
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I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
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I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
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I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.
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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.
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I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.
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I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.
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I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.
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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
