"The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them."

-- Thomas Hobbes

#Power Quotes #Long Quotes #Able Quotes

“Head coach of the England team demands management skills that Brian does not have. We had a head coach who wanted one thing, other coaches who wanted other things. The players hadn't a clue what was going on. Somehow we'd managed to turn our World Cup campaign into a Monty Python sketch - called The Life of Brian.”
“Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.”

Source : Dick Francis (2006). “Straight”, p.104, Penguin
“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”
“All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.”
“Our children are the cement of life, its up to us to make the foundation of the future!”
“Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.”
“The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.”

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