#lib

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#liberty #nothing #possession #wearing

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#come #engenders #i #i think #liberation

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#believe #eye #eye for an eye #form #freedom

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#attend #being #horrible #imagination #liberty

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

#been #blood #except #human #human blood

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. ↗

— Albert Claude

#common #courage #equilibrium #ethics #faith

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#fairy #fairy tale #fairy tales #great #i

I was a librarian. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#librarian

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#canvas #destroy #down #everyone #feel

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#become #care #chances #democrats #electoral