#vices

Amor verus numquam moritur: True love never dies ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #love #the-infernal-devices #love

National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#clean #criticism #criticisms #find #government

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#agenda #am #any #basic #basic human rights

But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#devices #film #i #left #like

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#along #america #devices #drifting #fate

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people. ↗

— Rose Wilder Lane

#i #learned #long #novices #only

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#condemned #correspond #harmless #inclinations #least

We are demonstrating for services for all the people and not just services for money. It's very important that this message goes to the European Parliament today. ↗

— John Monks

#european #goes #important #just #message

I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#agents #also #characterize #command #did

Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope. ↗

— Mikhail Saakashvili

#continue #hope #hunger #jobs #lack