Blaise Pascal Quotes

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.

A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.

History shows that attacks on general freedoms often begin with an attack on the freedom of a minority. It teaches us that we should never allow a government to divide and rule. An attack on one is an attack on all.

Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

I always say the beauty is in the mix.

You use force, you create fear. Fear destroys trust. Trust is the basis of harmony. The hardliner believes harmony and unity can be brought by force. That's totally unscientific, totally wrong.

All concord's born of contraries.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.

Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.

These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance, and respect for all people. The terrorists of Sept. 11 live and flourish in darkness. They cannot survive in the liberating and inspirational sunlight of American freedom and democracy.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.