#ny

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#bondage #expense #flagrant #folly #free

Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#genocidal #get #goes #going #great

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#anyway #death #dying #everything #human

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. ↗

— Horace

#content #find #guest #happy #happy life

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. ↗

— Black Elk

#children #circle #daylight #father #flowering

I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them! ↗

— Nick Hornby

#books #exclude #excluded #feel #i

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set. ↗

— Harriet Van Horne

#appliance #cleaner #days #electrical #entertainment

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#bring #depend #enjoyable #feel #i

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police. ↗

— John Howard

#any #automatic #earth #i #military

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#conscious #consciously #enslaved #freed #perception