Gerry Spence Quotes
Top 39 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gerry Spence
Gerry Spence Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Gerry Spence on Wise Famous Quotes.
The old saw that "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never harm me" does not, in fact, hold true.
To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.
Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.
The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.
When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.
We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.
My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.
There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.
As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.
The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.
I know love is worth the time it takes to find. Think of that when all the world seems made of walk up rooms and hands in empty pockets
The operational word in every competent defense is attack. If you're explaining and defending, you're losing.
When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.
Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.