Ceased Define Quotes

#1. Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

Muqtada Al Sadr

#2. Caballero said the CIA's psychological torture methods often degenerated into physical torture, citing a young woman who was stripped, starved, deprived of sleep, beaten, burned, electrically shocked and sexually molested.

Anonymous

#3. The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man ... [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.
(A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)

Thomas Jefferson

#4. Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#5. The Ravenels have always been known for their volatile temperaments."
"Thank you," Gabriel said sourly. "Now I won't be surprised when my future offspring emerge with horns and tails.

Lisa Kleypas

#6. Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

Saint Ambrose

#7. Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#8. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself.

George Orwell

#9. There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Your peace is not in your present circumstances but in your future accomplishments

Paul Gitwaza

#11. And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

#12. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

#13. By the time you read this letter, these words will be those of the past. The me of now is gone.

Fennel Hudson