"I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark."

-- Neil Peart

#Hero Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.”

Source : Lincoln Chafee's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.”
“I want a military funeral when I dieÂ—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anythingÂ—something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.”
“All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.”
“This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.37, Jazzybee Verlag
“I love clothes and I love fashion.”
“You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.”
“The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.”

Source : "Patriotic Gore" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. January 18, 2006.

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