"I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead."

-- Charles de Lint

#Writing Quotes #World Quotes #Curtains Quotes

“If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it would seem that large private organizations might also have difficulty in getting the individuals in the groups whose interests they attempt to advance to make the necessary contributions voluntarily.”

Source : Mancur OLSON (2009). “THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION”, p.13, Harvard University Press
“The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.”
“I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.”
“One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.”
“Chris Huhne is a remarkably successful and powerful minister”
“Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.”
“Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.”

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