"When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners."

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Source : James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

James St. James

#House Quotes #Dinner Quotes #Hens Quotes

“Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.”
“Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.”
“From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.”

Source : Charles Tilly, Gabriel Ardant, Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Comparative Politics (1975). “The Formation of national States in Western Europe”, Princeton Univ Pr
“She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.”
“It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.”

Source : Philip Reeve (2012). “Predator Cities x 4 and The Traction Codex”, p.13, Scholastic UK
“During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street and Corporate America. The United States has become ungovernable, unfixable, and, therefore, unsustainable economically, politically, militarily, and environmentally. It has evolved into the wealthiest, most powerful, most materialistic, most racist, most militaristic, most violent empire of all times.”

Source : "Thomas H. Naylor on Leviathan, Secession and Vermont's Small Nation Dream". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. May 13, 2012.
“Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.”
“To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.”

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