"The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!"

-- Robert Peel

#Government Quotes #Bills Quotes #Violence Quotes

“A man who lies about beer makes enemies.”
“TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.”
“You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.”
“Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.”
“If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.”
“Watching DBSK and Super Junior brought me up to be a singer..”
“Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.”
“It is true that there are not many smiling faces in modern art galleries. Happy art is much harder to make. Art and humour are uneasy bedfellows. Artists need strong feelings to motivate them to make things. I am often fuelled by anger.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

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