"Parliaments are the great lie of our time."

-- Konstantin Pobedonostsev

#Time Quotes #Lying Quotes #Parliament Quotes

“The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.”
“Preachers who talk about everything but the reality of Hell, are likeable betrayers of the Gospel.”
“Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society,”
“The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.”

Source : Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr
“True feelings never fade, we just learn to fill the spot.”
“The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.”

Source : "Pulp" by Imogen Tilden, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2001.
“Man's feeble race what ills await! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!”
“I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union to the jeopardy of successive experiments, in the chimerical pursuit of a perfect plan. I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound, as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed.”

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