#spot

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#individuality #liberty #tyranny #liberty

First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal interventions are permitted to continue, the implication seems to be, pretty soon, horror of horrors, no murderously repressive regimes might remain. ↗

— Daniel Kofman

#antiwar-movement #axis-of-evil #despotism #foreign-policy #foreign-policy-of-the-us

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#god #heaven #his #low #may

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot. ↗

— Brad Thor

#hit #lives #never #spot #their

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#equality #exercise #give #great #great souls

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot. ↗

— Edmond About

#collected #country #every #examined #i

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out. ↗

— Beck

#go #i #just #out #see

I actually started, this year, doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots, and some games. ↗

— Julie Benz

#did #doing #games #i #radio

There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song. ↗

— Barbara Broccoli

#comes #instant #lot #pressure #song

Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly. ↗

— James Buchan

#chances #conditions #despots #each #east