"Conservatives are tougher. They fight harder, they fight for their own, and they're willing to win for themselves and they're willing to impose pain on the opposition. Liberals are much less willing to do that. They're much more - they would much rather give to everybody."

-- Thomas B. Edsall

#Pain Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.58, Bantam
“I always fielded the team that I felt had the greatest chances of success.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers.”
“People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.”

Source : Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd
“When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.”

Source : "Serby’s Sunday Q&A with … Tyson Chandler". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. December 18, 2011.
“Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?”

Source : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.2411, Delphi Classics
“Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.”
“I loathe high/low art distinctions in any case, so the crossing and re-crossing of that line is an act to be savored and celebrated, regardless of how it turns out. I consider that transgressive aspect of the medium one of its great strengths. In the way comics is both words and pictures while being neither, comics is the Trickster's medium, and as such I would be happy if no one ever knew what to do with it.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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