"The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativene ss."

-- Ferdinand Marcos

#Balanced Quotes

“The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.”

Source : "The Mind of Hans-Hermann Hoppe". The Daily Bell interview, mises.org. March 27, 2011.
“M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.”
“There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.”
“Give Bush 10 minutes before you hammer him. I think he's going to surprise people. He sounds simple and uncomplicated, but maybe that's what we need now. He's not as stupid as everyone thinks. I like the guy.”
“Shane said, "Don't worry. I'll protect you." Claire hit him in the shoulder. "I don't need you to protect me." "Then why am I going first?" "So you can take the first punch while I throw the second?" "So I'm bait? Ouch. You've been in Morganville way too long, girl.”
“I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.”

Source : Samuel P. Huntington (2012). “The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century”, p.66, University of Oklahoma Press

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