"True counselors of despair are those who hope against hopeâ€”and historical experienceâ€”that the government can and will act constructively."

-- Robert Higgs

#Government Quotes #Historical Quotes #Despair Quotes

“By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate nationality...the notes of nationality, our language and customs.”
“The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.”
“I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.”
“Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.”

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“A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.”
“The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.”
“First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary Situation , a book which tells you all about writers, critics, publishing, paperbacked books, the tendencies of the (literary) time, what sells and how much, what writers wear and drink and want, what their wives wear and drink and want, and so on.”
“Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.”

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