"Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Running Quotes #Political Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.44, eKitap Projesi
“I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.”
“We have had drought where I live in New Mexico for several years, and I began to think about rain and green plants and growing. Fairies naturally came to mind when I imagined walking in green places. They are workers for the growth principle.”
“A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.”
“I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
“It isnâ€™t happiness I am concerned with but experience.”
“Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.”
“Concord, California was a great place to grow up.”

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