"History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured."

-- Bob Barr

#Real Quotes #Government Quotes #Aftermath Quotes

“The science world has no such coherence, cohesion or cooperation. It's a bunch of academics who were raised on the idea of communication being a frivolous add-on.”
“Once Iâ€™m obsessed with somebody, Iâ€™m terrified of them instantly. Iâ€™m not scared of them â€” Iâ€™m scared of meand how I will react. Like, for instance, one time someone was introducing me to Bill Maher, and I saw Meryl Streep walk into the room, and I literally put my hand right in Bill Maherâ€™s face and said, â€˜Not now, Bill!â€™ and I just stared at Meryl Streep. [...] I just creepily stared at her.”
“I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.”
“Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.”
“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
“The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, where we're both in no-thought. There's a deep connection.”
“[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."”
“Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us imagine a youth who is seized with a passion for a woman, or a man who is swayed by a passion for his work. In both cases what lies behind them has ceased to exist and yet this state (the most unhistorical that can be imagined) is that in which every action, every great deed is conceived and accomplished.”

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