"You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us."

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Source : "Frontier Freedom: An Interview with Malcolm Wallop". Interview with Rick Henderson, William H. Mellor , Ill, reason.com. November 1995.

Malcolm Wallop

#Government Quotes #Identity Quotes #Roles Quotes

“I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.”
“The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between my generation of Baby Boomers and the entire proceeding complex of teachings. In some ways, TR and Churchill have more in common with Homer and Shakespeare than they do with us.”
“I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.”
“I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.”
“What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet.”

Source : Mary Midgley (2011). “The Myths We Live By”, p.223, Taylor & Francis
“There is no time like the present...”

Source : Georgia Byng (2009). “Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time-Travel Adventure”, p.113, Pan Macmillan
“Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.”
“All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.”

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