"Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied."

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L. Neil Smith

#Respect Quotes #Authority Quotes

“I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.”
“I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.”
“Malta is a sod of a place.”
“The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .”
“How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!”

Source : "Tribune", Quoted by George Orwell, December 31, 1943.
“I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.”
“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
“What makes Facebook so great is the fact that you can make up absolutely random quotes and then attribute them to famous people.”

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