When kings the sword of justice first lay down,
They are no kings, though they possess the crown.
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.


Daniel Defoe

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The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is kno...
DANIEL GILBERT
I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Ch...
DANIEL EVERETT
It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion ...
DANIEL EVERETT
As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it bec...
DANIEL EVERETT
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some r...
DANIEL EVERETT
I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the ...
DANIEL EVERETT
Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvatio...
DANIEL EVERETT
One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and...
DANIEL EVERETT
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic tr...
DANIEL EVERETT
There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common...
DANIEL EVERETT
Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to hu...
DANIEL EVERETT
Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of i...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very g...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't mak...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I thi...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he t...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
DANIEL ESPINOSA
If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience w...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.
DANIEL ESPINOSA
When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
DANIEL ESPINOSA
It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their age...
DANIEL ESPINOSA
The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret...
DANIEL ELLSBERG
I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
DANIEL ELLSBERG
It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'...
DANIEL ELLSBERG
If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I hav...
DANIEL ELLSBERG
President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several tim...
DANIEL ELLSBERG
Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis...
DANIEL ELLSBERG
Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vie...
DANIEL ELLSBERG
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
DANIEL ELLSBERG
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli...
DANIEL ELLSBERG