Meiklejohn Quotes

#1. Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

Alexander Meiklejohn

#2. Freedom is always wise.

Alexander Meiklejohn

#3. It is easier to lure a fish than to hit it over the head with a club.

Carol Kendall

#4. Your soul is like the souls of a thousand monkeys on crack, all smushed together.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#5. Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

Howard Stern

#6. Night and day you are the one,
Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

Cole Porter

#7. At what point do we just re-create the people who have disappeared from our lives?

Sherman Alexie

#8. I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

Beatrice Sparks

#9. Express gratitude for what your spouse does for you. Express that love and gratitude often.

Richard G. Scott

#10. I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ... what a total thrill.

Karen Mason

#11. Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

Alexander Meiklejohn

#12. What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself.
"First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.

Melina Marchetta

#13. We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.

Craig Groeschel

#15. Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

Alexander Meiklejohn

#16. All great men face challenges in the pursuit of their goals. However, the challenges did not deter them for pushing forward and realizing their goals.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle?

Sergio Chejfec

#18. We can bury our heads in the sand and choose to ignore what is going around us, or we can look with new eyes, the eyes of the heart, upon the distortions of the past to walk again in authenticity and truth.

Barbara Meiklejohn-Free

#19. There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.

Alexander Meiklejohn

#20. People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Stendhal

#21. For some of us to be free, others must have narrow ranges of options

Liv Olteano