Pre Civil Quotes

#1. Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.

William J. Brennan

#2. For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

Gary Clark Jr.

#3. Passionate intimacy between people of the same sex was common in pre - Civil War America. The lack of clear sexual categories (homo-, hetero-, bi-) made same-sex affection unself-conscious and widespread.

David S. Reynolds

#4. Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

Francois Rabelais

#5. The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.

Richard Allen Epstein

#6. I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

Grace Zabriskie

#7. I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

Jon M. Chu

#8. I was born at a very crucial time. I consider 1968 to be the Mason Dixon line between pre- and post-civil rights generation ideas, whereas a lot of people born before '68 they kind of went into that Moses mentality. Like, I'm not going to make it, you know, I don't have any hope.

Questlove

#9. No thefts of free will reported."[ - Epictetus.]

Marcus Aurelius

#10. Normal?! What the heck is normal? Healthy is, I guess, my definition of it. Apparently.

Esther Earl

#11. Moinous reaches for Sucette's hand and squeezes it. Oh but I do love you, I do, I swear, in spite of them. However, for the first time in his life Moinous understands what quicksand love is.

Raymond Federman

#12. I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

Sigmund Freud

#13. Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They've failed because they've been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.

Billy Graham

#14. With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

Aaron Swartz

#15. A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse can finally set aside their fears thanks to the new robot Drinky, machines are no longer going to enslave us. They're going to puke on our shoes.

Mike Pesca

#16. In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

James Madison

#17. I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that they liked it. They sound really great on it. I already have it - I'm so VIP with my copy on my computer! It does sound really good.

Kelly Clarkson