"No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Men Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Favors Quotes

“As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.”

Source : "The Belgariad". Book by David Eddings, 1993.
“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
“If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.”
“How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.”
“Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.”
“It's hard to say what iconically will hit, resonate and stay with people.”
“In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.”
“Something happens because something happens because something happens”

Source : Jan Gehl (2011). “Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space”, p.75, Island Press

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