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While the State may respectfully require obedience on many matters, it cannot violate the moral nature of a man, convert him into a serviceable criminal, and expect his loyalty and devotion


Liane Norman

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NORMAN MAILER The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dag...
NORMAN COUSINS It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form ...
NORMAN COUSINS Many a man never fails because he never tries.
NORMAN MACEWAN That the public can grow accustomed to any face is proved by the increasing prevalence of Keith's ru...
PHILIP NORMAN There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining ...
NORMAN MAILER Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
NORMAN DOUGLAS History is a vast early warning system.
NORMAN COUSINS Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too l...
GREG NORMAN If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands ...
NORMAN MAILER The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
NORMAN MAILER People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of thei...
NORMAN DOUGLAS How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
NORMAN DOUGLAS There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juice...
NORMAN MAILER We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to l...
NORMAN COUSINS The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the...
NORMAN COUSINS Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
NORMAN COUSINS Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead thems...
NORMAN TEBBIT The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The w...
NORMAN COUSINS What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptio...
NORMAN MAILER Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives ...
NORMAN COUSINS If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t...
NORMAN AUGUSTINE