#dom

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#been #carry #commitments #democracy #effectively

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#best way #democratic #democratic system #demonstrate #emulation

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#beings #even #himself #his #man

Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space. ↗

— Forrest Church

#book-lover #books #bookstore #faith #hope

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#being #cartoon #dark #decent #decent people

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#every #fear #freedom #know #other

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#fled #freedom #germany #grandfather #had

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#communism #communist #firmly #fought #freedom

The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected. ↗

— Mike Ferguson

#anti-semitism #character #conscious #democracies #everyone

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#attack #exists #fascist #freedom #freedom of speech