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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.


Herbert Hoover


#climbed #dictator #each #every #except

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.


Joseph Hume


#allowed #am #burdens #equivalent #fair

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.


Shirley Jackson


#autobiographical #bare #chronological #contains #dislike

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#mother #mother tongue #syllables #those #tongue

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.


John Keegan


#about #beliefs #bothered #century #depressed

When I’m feeling down, I make myself a big bowl of Up Soup. The bowl only looks empty, but in reality it’s full of hope. Grab a spoon, there’s plenty for both of us. 



Jarod Kintz


#bowl #depressed #depression #eat #empty

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.


Karl Kraus


#poorly #repressed #sexuality #some #well

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.


Michael Tippett


#disappeared #everything #extreme #figure #his

Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.


Chantal Kreviazuk


#artist #because #being #call #cause

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.


Jiddu Krishnamurti


#awaiting #beginning #end #hidden #pain