"Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power."
- Renee Ahdieh
"The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control."
- bell hooks
"In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office..."
- H.L. Mencken
"Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury..."
- Ayn Rand
"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade..."
"An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes."
"Without sound,There would be no music.And without music,There would be no life.And without a life force,There would be no matter.But it does not matter -Because what is matter,If there is no light?"
- Suzy Kassem
"Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man."
- Criss Jami
"When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nat..."
"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish."
- Anne Bradstreet