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02:34pm 14/06/2005
  Starting a meme here, y0.

Give seven quotes that you find particularly meaningful or illuminating.

It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French writer and philosopher

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist

What is done for love lies beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, poet and author

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Ayn Rand, American philosopher

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

John Stuart Mill, English political philosopher and economist

We have to regard art as the greater enhancement, the more perfect development of all this; for essentially it achieves just the same thing as is achieved by the visible world itself, only with greater concentration, perfection, intention and intelligence; and therefore, in the full sense of the word, it may be called the flower of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher		  
   

(Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?)
 
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