"One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street."

-- David Hare

#Depressing Quotes #Law Quotes #Orthodoxy Quotes

“If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.”
“For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.”
“No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.”

Source : Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.91, Open Road Media
“If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of the truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying, eros, eros, eros.”
“I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.”
“When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.”
“Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree.”

Source : Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.11, Seven Stories Press
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”

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