Seizures Quotes

• A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Justice, Diversity, Peaceful

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.40, New Directions Publishing

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• Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

  Gore Vidal

  Order, Political, Drug

  Gore Vidal (2002). “Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire”, p.54, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• Marijuana makes the best bio-diesel fuel on the planet, so it can make you energy. It grows 15 feet a summer, so it's a renewable resource. It makes better paper than wood does. It makes clothing. Medical-wise, it's stopping seizures, it's working for post-traumatic stress, they're even finding that it's curing cancer in certain cases. I mean, this is a remarkable plant. Now, for those that smoke it recreationally, to feel good, what's wrong with that? That's mental health.

  Jesse Ventura

  Summer, Wise, Cancer

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Why are you still with me, Fry?" CyFi asks after one of his body-shaking seizures. "Any sane dude woulda taken off days ago. "Who says I'm sane?" "Oh, you're sane, Fry. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.

  Neal Shusterman

  Taken, Insane, Scare

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

  David Eagleman

  Reality, Biology, Depends

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• The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

  Michael Gerber

  Business, Mistake, Decision

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• Ninety percent of a shirt that not only was bright purple and green but with a design on it that, if you moved too quickly, might cause a seizure in an unsuspecting onlooker.

  Lewis Black

  Purple, Design, Green

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• Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Keys, Decision, Lessons

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• Cole grasped a handful of vials and syringes with one hand and dumped them on the island in front of me. They rolled and whirled in misshapen circles on the counter surface. "Here are our options." My ears rang. "We have more than one?" "Three, precisely," Cole said. He pointed to each in turn. "That one makes you a wolf. That one makes me a wolf. That one gives us both seizures.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Islands, Hands, Circles

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.867, Scholastic Inc.

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• I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Rights, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.78, Penguin

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• ...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be governed; whether in Churchor State; and that the present arrangements of society, on these points, are a violation of human rights, a rank usurpation of power, a violent seizure and confiscation of what is sacredly and inalienably hers--and thus inflicting upon woman outrageous wrongs, working mischief incalculable in the social circle, and in its influence on the world producing only evil, and that continually.

  Angelina Grimke

  Believe, Rights, Law

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.191, Penguin

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• It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.

  Albert J. Nock

  Giving, Assumption, Social

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• Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state, human rights violations, and brutalities. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely.

  Gene Sharp

  Rights, Brutality, May

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.13, Albert Einstein Institution

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• The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.

  Joseph Campbell

  Passion, Order, Storm

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.87, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. All of those countries, in the wake of these surveillance revelations, rushed through laws that were basically ghostwritten by the National Security Agency to enable mass surveillance without court oversight, without all of the standard checks and balances that one would expect.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Agency, Law

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-Tung.... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions.

  Dorothy Day

  Brother, Believe, Army

  "The Incompatibility of Love and Violence". "Catholic Worker", May 1951.

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• It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.

  Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

  Kings, Bishops, Chess

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• Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child who may, sensibly, show signs of boredom in his classroom. Ritalin renders the child docile if not comatose. Side effects? "Stunted growth, facial tics, agitation and aggression, insomnia, appetite loss, headaches, stomach pains and seizures." Marijuana would be far less harmful.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Pain, School

  "The Last Empire" by Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. November 1998.

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• Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way that everything within a given space at a given moment is present to everything else; it is a declaration of the seamless integrity of the real.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Photography, Integrity, Real

  Rosalind E. Krauss (1986). “The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths”, p.107, MIT Press

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• Is he dancing or having a seizure?

  Jerry Lawler

  Wwe, Dancing

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• They're talking about kids who have grand mal seizures, and they've discovered that marijuana eases that down to where these children can have a life. That right there, to me, says, 'Legalize it across the board!'

  Morgan Freeman

  Children, Kids, Marijuana

  "Morgan Freeman Shoots Straight: On Legalizing Marijuana and His Escape From New York" by Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. May 6, 2015.

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• I saw a video on YouTube of a girl who had very similar reactions to late-stage Lyme disease as I did. And I thought it was crazy. And when I saw her basically have a seizure on camera that looked very much like my seizure I felt, "Oh my god. That's me." And so it was really important to me, and I said to Sini, 'We have to find some way to not just talk about Lyme disease, but to show it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Crazy, Important

  "Badass Interview: Kathleen Hanna And Sini Anderson On SXSW’s THE PUNK SINGER". Interview with Meredith Borders, birthmoviesdeath.com. March 20, 2013.

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• Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.

  Tim Wise

  Guarantees, Way, Problem

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• Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.

  John Chamberlain

  Christian, Mean, Men

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• If every man and woman were to take the meaning of their life and pursue it passionately, they would alter the social landscape overnight. In fact, that's how lasting revolutions are made- not by the raised arm of the masses, not by the military seizure of power, not by the political coup d'etat, but by individuals asserting who they are one at a time.

  Richard Bode

  Military, Men, Political

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