"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing that it seeks to destroy."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Violence Quotes #Weakness Quotes #Descending Quotes

“Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?”
“The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.”

Source : Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.264, Penguin
“There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.”
“Speed is not an indicator of quality in terms of fiction. That's true of one's relative slowness or swiftness - taking 10 years to write a book or taking 10 days to write a book (or a comic or a film or an angry postcard) guarantees nothing in terms of how good or how bad that story is.”
“I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies-I felt like saying â€œHowdy cousin,â€ to everybody who walked by.”
“If you pursue an evenhanded policy between a cat and a mouse, do you help the mouse to survive - or allow the cat to eat half the mouse?”
“Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss”
“Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.”

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