"Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Gun Quotes #Law Quotes #Tyrants Quotes

“Facts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them.”

Source : Cheris Kramarae (1992). “Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary”, Pandora Press
“I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but to embrace that kind of physical response, enjoy it, get into it. That's the first real ticket to being a performer who thinks exceptionally.”

Source : "Interview with True Blood Star, Kristin Bauer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.”
“How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.”
“Time taught me how to see every second as heaven, even though they're perfectly disguised as hell.”
“Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.”
“The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to ***** their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water ...”

Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder (1997). “Saving Graces: The Inspirational Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder”, B & H Publishing Group
“There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.”

Source : Matthew Reilly (2015). “The Tournament”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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