"The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good."

-- John Ralston Saul

#Powerful Quotes #Government Quotes #Individuality Quotes

“Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams!”

Source : John Ramsay (1836). “Poems”, p.9
“no expectations, no disappointments!”
“The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.”
“Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman”
“Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.”

Source : Edmund Vance Cooke, “How DID You Die?”
“The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it”
“Truth must be found in reality, not systems.”
“Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.”

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