Barry O'Farrell Quotes
In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
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Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
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We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
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I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Liberty, n. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either.
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Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world.
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Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.
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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.
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In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
