To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The only real equality is in the cemetery GERMAN PROVERB I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie. JERRY ONLY We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite. JERRY ONLY The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch ... JERRY ONLY My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can. JERRY ONLY Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you pro... JERRY ONLY There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected e... JERRY ONLY Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it. JERRY ONLY The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the wh... JERRY ONLY We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guest... JERRY ONLY We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed. JERRY ONLY The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10... JERRY ONLY They only care about themselves and their ambitions. Everything is security security security. GUY COHEN We do not seek vengeance, only to rid Palestinian society of corruption, and bring security to the s... FARHAT ASAD Because you are habituated to be in suffering, Bliss looks a disturbance to you! PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you a... WILHELM REICH The means are inconsequential, only the ens matter RITA STRADLING I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and indep... WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. ANN MORROW LINDBERG Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one ... DAVID LEVITHAN Kira is evil ... There's no denying that ... But lately I've been starting to think of it more like ... TSUGUMI OHBA I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, a... LOUISE ARBOUR Within recent weeks Mr. Miller started to pursue a course of conduct which could only be detrimental... DENZIL DOUGLAS Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Give... RACHEL NAOMI REMEN These people took care of us and treated us as if we were the only ones suffering loss. FELTON MCCLELLAN He sat on the edge of the mattress, his nerves sizzling as Daisy gathered up the loose folds of her ... LISA KLEYPAS If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, ... JAMES SINEGAL There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen. THERESA MAY No person can escape the germs of their eventual deterioration and destruction. A round-table of phy... KILROY J. OLDSTER Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. -Anne Morro... ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH What face will they show, when they go there? They will regret and repent for their sins their actio... GURU GOBIND SINGH There's never going to be someone else," he says, shaking his head. "You've wrecked me. I wouldn't b... EMM COLE If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy you... MAHATMA GANDHI The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering. MELVIN JULES BUKIET The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first... ASHLEY MONTAGU It's Lust at First Sight, Not Love at First Sight. Love Requires First to Understand and Appreciate,... THEHEALTHFOODGURU We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can... WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can o... WILLIAM OSLER Well, why would you create something that had the power to hurt You? Or any of Your creatures? Why d... LEV GROSSMAN Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes ... MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to he... RUSSELL SIMMONS They decided [about four years ago] to try to find a single security provider to provide their secur... GARY CANNON It's for her own security and the security of the refugees. That's the only way she can have direct ... JENNIFER PAGONIS Root-kits have a clearly negative impact on not only the security, but also the reliability and perf... JASON GARMS We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom c... KARL POPPER We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom c... KARL POPPER He's sitting in a ... maximum security cell, while members of the intelligence community, some of wh... ANTHONY WEINER There is nothing to trust seeking happiness from outside, you will only become exhausted with suffer... DALAI LAMA We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. MARCEL PROUST We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full. MARCEL PROUST The impeccable watchmaker geared the noble self to suffer. The ineluctable part of being human is pe... KILROY J. OLDSTER It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ROBERT LYND It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering ROBERT LYND You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only secu... JOHN ALLEN PAULOS The security institution is the only guarantee to prevent sedition and civil war. Civil war began in... ALA HOSNI The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for aff... ABRAHAM MASLOW Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves... ROBERT MUGABE Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves... ROBERT MUGABE Back then, the farmers only came to town on Saturday, so the mothers could come do their shopping. A... BONNIE WATFORD We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. JACOB BRONOWSKI And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY It's only a very small percentage of creative thinking that ends up connecting with a wider audi... SHAUN TAN Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except f... GERMAINE GREER The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in... AND CITY Desperate Housewives. AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-... AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte... AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana. JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight, JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent, JILL AND If we're going to fly them, put passengers in them, luggage, freight, parcels, then we're going to m... BRIAN JENKINS We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. MARCEL PROUST Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be... CORRINE BROWN The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not al... CHRISTIAAN BARNARD On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choic... ROBERT ANTON WILSON This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. JOHN STUART MILL It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ROBERT STAUGHTON LYND Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not b... MOTHER THERESA Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen ... DONNA LYNN HOPE While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go roun... FRED RODELL I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering. WALTER S. LANDOR Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am in touch with several heads of state, ... We need money, police and troops. I hope not only Fra... KOFI ANNAN The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. THEODORE FORSTMANN The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. JOHN GREEN The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive JOHN GREEN
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WALTER BECKER Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ... WALTER BECKER When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's... WALTER BECKER My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th... WALTER BECKER I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end... WALTER BECKER I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players. WALTER BECKER Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d... WALTER BAGEHOT An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ... WALTER BAGEHOT No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist... WALTER BAGEHOT The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi... WALTER BAGEHOT No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. WALTER BAGEHOT Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink... WALTER BAGEHOT The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn... WALTER BAGEHOT All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only... WALTER BAGEHOT Life is a school of probability. WALTER BAGEHOT It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause... WALTER ANNENBERG I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty. WALTER ANNENBERG I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence. WALTER ANNENBERG Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minu... WALTER ANNENBERG God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender. WALTER ANNENBERG You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others. WALTER ANNENBERG What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold. WALTER ANNENBERG The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energi... WALTER ANNENBERG Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round. WALTER ANNENBERG I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer. WALTER ANNENBERG Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life. WALTER ANNENBERG Accomplish something every day of your life. WALTER ANNENBERG