"Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?"

-- Ray Davies

#Low Self Esteem Quotes #Punching Quotes #Bags Quotes

“Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.”

Source : Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.
“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”
“Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.”
“Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it's reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted it is. There are no good or bad rugs; there are only good and bad relationships with drugs.”
“The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.”
“If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.”
“I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth.”
“Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.”

Source : "The Songlines". Book by Bruce Chatwin, 1987.

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