Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up against the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid.
– Penn Jillette
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- As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead. – Penn Jillette
- You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is -œI don’t know-. – Penn Jillette
- If there’s something you really want to believe, that’s what you should question the most. – Penn Jillette
- Astrology is a cousin of racism. – Penn Jillette
- They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We’re the United Nations of juvenile delinquents. – Sherman Alexie
- There is good weird and good strange and bad weird and bad strange. Your Daddy is good weird and good strange. – Roger Hamlet
- It really sucks to come in second in your own life. It sucks even more to think that this is okay. – Robin Korth
- I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn’t doubt about it. – Deyth Banger
- I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). – Robert Nozick
- I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. – Frank Zappa
- … gay marriage rights coming and going, always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual-˜s private choice. – GA Hauser
- Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights. – David T Dellinger
- The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less. – Susan B Anthony
- Rights and duties, sounded more entertaining than duties and rights. – Toba Beta
- It was not that low-income renters didn’t know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them. – Matthew Desmond
- Never be content to sit back and watch as others’ rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next. – DaShanne Stokes
- A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother. – Debasish Mridha
- I loved this place when I was a kid. I still love it, but when I was a kid I’d take the bus down here and spend all day long reading in this room. – Caitln R Kiernan
- A -˜white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A -˜black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.* – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it’s too easy. – Henry Jenkins
- This book is dedicated to all the students I’ve known over the years who’ve taught me humility and what it means to really be a kid. – Dr Kid Brain
- A kid of your age-”any kid-”could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to? – Stephen King
- Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid. – Dan Alatorre
- It’s easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense. – Brandon Mull
- if you don’t have any weird moments, you’re weird – bertie gilbert
- Being weird adds spice to life. Having weird friends just deepens the flavor – Jayelle Cochran
- I figure the more people think I’m just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am. – Melanie Hooyenga
- I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff-¦ and I want in.. – Homer Simpson
- Yes I am weird, weird is good. Normal is overrated. – MadD
- All good writers are weird. Proudly weird. – Margo Rabb
- If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other. – Robert Penn Warren
- Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. – William Penn
- violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble. – Louis LAmour
- Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102) – Cornel West
- A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. – Thomas Jefferson
- You want Change, today we’ll show you Change!Here’s your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat! – NoViolet Bulawayo
- Without respect, love is lost. Without caring, love is boring. Without honesty, love is unhappy. Without trust, love is unstable. – Unknown
- I want you. But I’m scared to say it out loud. And it sucks because I’ve always been someone who always says things out loud. – Nessie Q
- Respect, love, Trust; Every such things works both ways. If yeu want someone to respect yeu, yeu must respect that someone too. – Sandesh limbu