"I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government"

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Government Quotes

“I think we have the potential to connect the world in a way that can save hundred of millions of lives. That should be our goal.”
“All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.”

Source : John Ralston Saul (1997). “Reflections of a Siamese twin: Canada at the end of the twentieth century”, Viking Adult
“That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child." I stopped.”
“A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.”
“After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.”
“You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.”
“Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.”
“Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.”

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