"I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority."

-- Patrick O'Brian

#Men Quotes #Long Quotes #Authority Quotes

“I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.”
“All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter.”
“Perhaps the more â€˜operaticâ€™ video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the videos were a way for me to be social and flamboyant and to change my mind all the time. Because when I did the knit pieces, once I committed myself to a piece I was locked into an idea and the only thing that could really move was my mind. The early video pieces were a way for me to express what was going on in my mind.”
“When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”
“I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.”
“We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.”

Source : "The Banality of Heroism" by Zeno Franco, Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu. September 1, 2006.
“Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.”
“It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

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