"The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England."

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Ishmael Reed

#War Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Tourists Quotes

“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
“You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.”

Source : Indira Gandhi, Fatma Zakaria (1984). “Last Words”
“My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.”
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.”
“Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.”

Source : "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War". Book by Max Brooks, 2007.
“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.”
“Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for Michael Moore. Plus, they resent the fact that they've had to learn our language because if they didn't we wouldn't buy their stupid metric widgets or visit their overpriced ruins.”

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