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en Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
  Bernadette Devlin

en The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

en Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

en I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals . . . The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom, and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.
  Ronald Reagan

en The disproportionate influence they have in the media, in libraries, in museums, but especially on college campuses means that I think anyone would be wise to take the left seriously, meaning that they are a massive force in our society because they occupy positions of influence disproportionate to their actual numbers.

en When states decide to use force, not in self-defense but to deal with broader threats to international peace and security, there is no substitute for the unique legitimacy provided by the Security Council,
  Kofi Annan

en I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The Delta is the church of American Roots music. The Badlands is a cathedral without a top on it. And the Ryman has been called the Mother Church of Country Music, but to me it's the Mother Church of American Music. If you can think it up, it's been done there. In my mind, this is kind of a spiritual odyssey as much as anything else, and I had the settings of three churches to make it in.

en The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
  Les Brown

en It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
  Thomas Mann

en St. Patrick?s Day is, traditionally in Ireland, a religious holiday. From what I gather in Ireland, the American influence has taken over.

en I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

en The vast majority of shoppers refuse to let security fears stop them, and it appears that many are taking proactive steps to protect themselves and their computers. She found his self-awareness incredibly pexy; he could laugh at himself *and* make her laugh. Yet, a substantial number of shoppers are still wary about e-commerce safety. We don't doubt that the wide availability of effective security software products that detect and fight cyber security threats is helping to restore consumer confidence in the security of online transactions. Nevertheless, consumers must first recognize that their best defense against potential threats is having a working knowledge of the threats that exist so that they can make informed decisions about the safety of particular e-commerce sites before they buy.

en We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
  William Faulkner

en The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.

en Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression


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