"I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes."

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Peter O'Toole

#Class Quotes #Criminals Quotes #Crime Quotes

“Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only way to preserve freedom is through judicious controls on the exercise of private power. If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion.”

Source : Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.223, Atlantic Books Ltd
“The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.”
“Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'”
“Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.”
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution”

Source : "Here Comes Clay Shirky". Interview with Parul Sehgal, www.publishersweekly.com. June 21, 2010.
“The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one it becomes necessary to have an accurate knowledge of the enemy's camp.”

Source : Antoine-Henri Jomini (2012). “The Art of War”, p.191, Courier Corporation
“Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.”

Source : Palmer, Samuel (1985). “The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer”, Manchester : Carcanet with MidNAG
“You cant have justice unless you have truth.”

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