"Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force."

-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#Struggle Quotes #Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant.”
“My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.”
“You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.”
“According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.16, Columbia University Press
“I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.”

Source : Speech at U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, delivered day Month 1992, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but thats a little way off yet.”
“I have 14 nieces and nephews.”

Source : "Aaron Paul On Playing A Meth Dealer On 'Breaking Bad'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2014.
“Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.”

Source : James R. Schlesinger (1968). “Planning-programming-budgeting: Uses and Abuses of Analysis”

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