The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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Frank Herbert
Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Henry David Thoreau
Ever heard of the rule of three? he shouts as we run. No! If you save somebody's life three times, their life belongs to you. You saved my life today, that makes once. Save it twice more an I'm all yers.
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Moira Young
Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.
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Toba Beta
We must submit to God's righteous rule.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
More Quotes By Mary McCarthy
We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.
I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.
Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."(on Lillian Hellman)
This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class...
Bureaucracy the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.
