Joshua Emmet Quotes

#1. You are provided with hands, but you decide how to employ them. Some use their hands to provide a lover's caress, chisel a sculpture, plant seeds; others use their hands to tighten a noose, pull a gun trigger, turn a prison key on innocent souls.

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#2. The letter of the law should bend; and this bending should be with the winds of freedom rather than toward the lifelessness of still punishment.

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#3. In a legitimate democracy, all have an equal say.

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#4. A philosopher's house is always more tuneful than a disciplinarian's.

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#5. Not only does American corn syrup run deep in our food - it also runs deep in our propaganda.

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#6. The tyrant is asleep to beauty and awake to ugliness.

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#7. It is not that accepting and rejecting are great actions within themselves. But the right to accept or reject, now that is everything.

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#8. If one truly believes in freedom, how can one welcome the notion of slavery from either traditional masters or temperance-wielding masters disguised as servants?

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#9. Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?

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#10. I pray that if a god watches over us, it will have the decency to avoid the tasteless maneuver of voyeuristic trespass.

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#11. What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?

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#12. When you recklessly mine the depths of your imagination, universal truths are freed to surface.

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#13. When melodies and chord changes are masterfully combined, a grand movement takes over our entire body, awakening heart, nerves, and emotions with a primitive force. One can see it in the ancient dance of the enchantress: her hypnotic jingling of costume, her trance to appease the gods.

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#14. Like the continents, men and women were once connected, but they drifted apart. The evidence is still there, but you have to possess the determination of a mad archeologist to discover it.

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#15. Because love operates outside of time, love has always existed and it will never cease.

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#16. Love arrives without practical deliberations in its suitcase.

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