"Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?"

-- William J. Murray

#Democracy Quotes #Might Quotes #Acquiescence Quotes

“In a real relationship, you take two steps forward, one step back. So just because we take two steps forward and get all the benefit from that doesn't mean we can't go back or to the side.”

Source : "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.
“Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.”
“I needed music today. And like always it was there for me.”
“Women from fashion magazines, they hate other women. They like to tell other women they are ugly and often it works. Women's magazines are mostly about the outside and not about the inside. About make-up instead of arts and literature. Its such a shame.”

Source : Source: valuet.wordpress.com
“When you've been through that, a fight just doesn't seem that cataclysmic.”
“Can't believe the number of tracks I get sent every day now. Everyone is at it! There's no way you can keep up and I have two A&R guys!”
“My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.”
“To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day.”

Source : "Life As It Is" by Nelson Rodrigues, translated by Alex Ladd, Host Publications, (p. ii), 2009.

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