"Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]"

-- Jean de La Fontaine

#Eye Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Moles Quotes

“Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.”
“Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death â€” this infantile fixation of mine â€” was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry â€” with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.”
“Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.”
“The little grassroots people can change this world.”
“The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.”
“If you want to score a goal, you have to hit the target.”
“Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.”

Source : Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company
“Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!”

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