"Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private security, and which is neither costly nor vexatious; but of that sort of police which bad governments employ to preserve or extend their personal authority at any expense."

-- Jean-Baptiste Say

#Government Quotes #Police Quotes #Maintenance Quotes

“Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.”
“Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.”

Source : "Peter Ackroyd: 'Rioting has been a London tradition for centuries'". The Monday Interview with Andy McSmith, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2011.
“Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.”

Source : Augustine Birrell (1885). “Obiter Dicta ...: Carlye. On the alleged obscurity of Mr. Browning's poetry. Truth-hunting. Actors. A rogue's memoirs. The via media. Falstaff [by George Radford”
“If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”

Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.25, Pan Macmillan
“Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called "mountaintop employments of great value," we spend our time in digging a pit and then falling therein, so that our temporary joy may become a permanent and bitter loss.”
“Everything that happens-good and bad-should motivate you to be persistent.”

Source : Jim Tressel (2010). “The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life”, p.136, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“It is a world of words that creates a world of things.”

Source : J M Coetzee (2015). “In The Heart Of The Country”, p.146, Random House
“Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes.”

Source : Najwyższy Czas! magazine, January 03, 2008.

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