A Quote by Freya Stark

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

Freya Stark

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Freya Stark
English - Writer
January 31, 1893 - May 9, 1993

People think I write fantasy, but I don't; some things may be exaggerated or distorted in the same way that painters distort and alter things, but they're realistic figures. They're perfectly recognisable.

Joe Orton

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Edmund Burke

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

Abraham Lincoln

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

Phyllis Bottome

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #? fact .

Charles Spurgeon

It obviously matters who gets to be president. And it's perfectly valid for us media types to advocate for the candidate we think is more qualified, based on our reporting. But the hype has gotten so out of control, it's become bigger than the presidency itself.

Matt Taibbi

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Edmund Burke

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

Arthur Boyd

Gene editing will be used to alter DNA to erase the origins of a range of debilitating inherited disorders.

Scott Gottlieb

Don't worry about things you cannot alter

Catherine the Great

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

Mary Astell

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Roy L. Smith

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

Mahatma Gandhi

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

Tawfiq al-Hakim

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

Ted Rall

You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.

Kapil Sibal

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