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. Gerry Spence
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered. Christopher Dodd
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. Billie Holiday
When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas. David Brooks
Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you. Michael Korda
To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. Tahar Ben Jelloun
He will now come on to Bukovina, and return tomorrow or the next day, better the next day. Whilst he was speaking the horses began to neigh and snort and plunge wildly, so that the driver had to hold them up.
It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields. David Douglass
The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated. Casey Affleck
I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off. Albert J. Nock
For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times! David Friedman
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Marian Anderson
