"When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Gun Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.”
“Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.”
“When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.”
“The strength of a story is the truth you find in it.”
“Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor,”

Source : Derek Walcott (1969). “In a green night: poems, 1948-1960”, Jonathan Cape
“We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?”
“People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.”
“I thought men like that shot themselves.”

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