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A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.


John Foxe


#accuser #against #allowed #every #evidence

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.


Galileo Galilei


#believe #endowed #feel #forgo #god

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.


Martha Gellhorn


#citizenship #his #informed #make #obliges

Even good people are obliged to deceive.


Greg LeMond


#even #good #good people #obliged #people

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.


Annie Lennox


#certain #corporation #free #i #make

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.


Georg C. Lichtenberg


#clever #crazy #least #many #minds

Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.


Ignatius Loyola


#blessed #considering #consists #creator #god

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.


Ernst Mach


#during #hold #lives #most #obliged

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.


James Madison


#control #difficulty #enable #first #framing

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.


Malcolm Muggeridge


#american citizens #citizens #happiness #involve #moods