"Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering."

-- Fred Reed

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“If we don't put our faith to work we will soon discover that we have a faith that doesn't work!”
“Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.”

Source : Italo Svevo (1969). “Further Confessions of Zeno”, p.126, Univ of California Press
“Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.”
“As a new day begins in New York, the sun sets in Hawaii.”
“Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.”

Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.19, Faber & Faber
“Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.”
“Temerity is not always successful.”
“During my stage shows, I am so energetic. It's constant! I just don't stand still. I actually got given a mic stand from my team to say 'Just calm down. Stand still for at least two songs.' But now I just pick it up and walk around with it.”

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