"I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent."

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Source : John Marsden (2010). “While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.60, Pan Australia

John Marsden

#Attitude Quotes #Selfish Quotes #War Quotes

“Through all the windows I only see infinity.”
“Is it a bad sign when someone asks you about the person your dating and a tear falls from your eye as you leap into oncoming traffic?”
“Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.”
“All God's Chillun got Rhythm.”

Source : "Song: "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"". 1937.
“...living more sustainably means living happier, more balanced and potentially more fulfilled lives than most of us 'choose' to live today, whatever Jeremy Clarkson may have to say about that!”
“I believe in sometimes getting mad and always getting even.”

Source : Ed Rollins (1996). “Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms: My Life in American Politics”, Broadway
“This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.”

Source : Herbert J. Muller (1952). “the Uses of the Past”
“If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.”

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