Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth stupid fumbling—oh, he conceded that man, a social animal, could not avoid having government, any more than an individual man could escape his lifelong bondage to his bowels. But Harshaw did not have to like it. Simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it a “good.” He wished that government would wander off and get lost!"

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain t...
NEIL GAIMAN

Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564 Therefore Adam could have stood if he w...
JOHN CALVIN

He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he ...
WENDELL BERRY

Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no ...
THOMAS PAINE

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

He could not escape and was badly beaten till he lost his consciousness.
GEORGE NINAN

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more indiv...
THOMAS HOBBES

38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON

He may be a scholar, but he’s first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was ...
ROBERT LUDLUM

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one ti...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

He could not stand. It was not
That he could not thrive, he was born
With everything but t...
TED HUGHES

He was overcome with a sudden sense of premonition, though he did not believe in premonition. He fel...
DIANA GABALDON

No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE

He has an extraordinary degree of talent and passion, and he was a little wild man. My job was simpl...
LEE OLSEN

In consideration of the horrible things that has happened to the poor man I can almost understand......
ROMAN POLANSKI

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy an...
PAUL HOFFMAN

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot bett...
BILL SCOTT

An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it it is reasonably certa...
MARK TWAIN

I knew there was no point in debating a man such as this. The world bent and contorted itself to fit...
DAVID LISS

I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his min...
JODI PICOULT

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he ...
CHRISTIAN BALE

He was not a stupid man. He was managed by reasonably clever people who understood his value. But he...
DESMOND MORTON

This is a man who knows what his responsibilities are under the law. He knew that there was a govern...
CHARLIE LEONARD

That man that killed another man is no criminal nor should he be consider an evil man for his action...
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also go...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

To support his austerely upholstered nest and its rabble staff he put forth minimum effort for maxim...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ign...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart,- ye...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

He wants to become the number one opponent of a government that is already weak. This was the only p...
CARLOS LARREATEGUI

Was he dragged into criminal activity to which he was not predisposed, by a government overbearing h...
JAMES COMEY

He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was scr...
J.K. ROWLING

Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of ...
BERNARD DEVOTO

There was no formula. But after a year or two, seeing Lindsay walking down 125th Street in Harlem wa...
JAY KRIEGEL

He was totally alien to the man I knew and loved. It was like he had a big black cloud hanging over ...
CAROLINE WAUGH

35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts...
DANIEL CRAIG

Plato's system was . . . rent by an irreconcilable dualism of mind and body, spirit and matter, good...
JIMMY SWAGGART

If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like ...
DONALD JUSTICE

When it was over he (Freeman) thanked me for doing a good job. I did the best I could, but obviously...
MACK GARNER

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follow...
EZRA TAFT BENSON

It was an OK shot. He could have made it. He tried his best but couldn't get it to go. Time was runn...
GORDAN GIRICEK

The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he should...
AESOP

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, ...
JOHN BUCHAN

In place of the clear and rigid ancient law, You [oh Lord] made man decide about good and evil for h...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

He did not smile at his employees, he did not take them out for drinks, he never inquired about thei...
AYN RAND

Whereupon people would come barging into his sanctuary, asking stupid questions and making stupid de...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Any chef worth his spoons learned to talk, because cooking was an art—and art was subjective. One ...
BRANDON SANDERSON

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

He looked, well, sturdier than he used to. His shoulders were square and, naturally, broader than be...
VICTORIA KAHLER

We felt the media would be one of the best things we could do to put it in the forefront of people's...
DWIGHT LANDRY

Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no...
JAMES C. DOBSON

George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON

I guess the most interesting thing about Gabriel was that he didn't seem to care at all what people ...
JOHN COREY WHALEY

Luis is a young man that has serious responsibilities on his shoulders, not only as a husband but as...
YURI CUNZA

I think I have a lot more experience than he does with municipal matters, having four years in gover...
BILLY JOB

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement a...
WILLIAM GODWIN

If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN

When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head co...
ALYSHA SPEER

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all...
LYSANDER SPOONER

He was sad because he had grown up, and because the years passed like a river that no man could stop...
JAMES T. FARRELL

Wasn’t it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of thin...
RICHARD YATES

Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one abso...
MARK TWAIN

I could tell the whole day there was something off about him. When he walked in, he wouldn't take hi...
JULIA JACOB

Our government should have done everything, should have spoken up very, very loudly, very, very publ...
BRIAN DEEGAN

He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstin...
T.H. WHITE

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. Theyll have enough to eat, a bed and ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER

Our truck was decent, but it wasn't anything like his. He won the race. I could not accelerate off t...
TED MUSGRAVE

You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he de...
WILHELM REICH

The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

Kershaw did not minimise the historical role played by his insane, ideological fixations, but he did...
VOLKER ULLRICH

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government ...
HARRY BROWNE

There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had th...
HAROLD PINTER

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The m...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.
GEORGE HERBERT

There was a limit to how much a government could reduce its spending, but a Labour government would ...
JOSEPH MUSCAT

People thought there was a good chance of an agreement coming out of these meetings but it's clear t...
CASS JOHNSON

He did not expect reasonable conduct from human beings; he considered most people fit candidates for...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

(Jerry) and I hit it off. He's a very professional man. He was good to his word.
DAVID HUME KENNERLY

He wanted to tell her how much he preferred to look at her, that only by watching could he memorize ...
JERZY KOSINKSI

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he ...
STORM JAMESON

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself - except why he...
STORM JAMESON

When a boy…discovers that he is more given into introspection and consciousness of self than other...
YUKIO MISHIMA

He's a great player to have. He was looking to penetrate and knew his shot was off. I think he was h...
CHANNING TONEY

He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the...
AYN RAND

That was his big thing. He did that several times. He was extremely generous. He was always buying t...
LYNDELL ZANOTTI

A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a huma...
JOE QUEENAN

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone f...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Jesus Christ could die instead of man because He was sinless. As a man without sin, He was not under...
HENRY HON

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with on...
PAUL BOWLES

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