"Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious 'right' a revolution was fought."

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Source : "Voters Strike". Short story by Octave Mirbeau, 1888.

Octave Mirbeau

#Running Quotes #Names Quotes #Sheep Quotes

“I cry and pray and try to find the positive or the lesson for my pain.”
“The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.”
“I think we have to be more proactive in the people we invite to come and speak in school.”
“Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.”
“Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.”
“To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one's deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one's individuality.”
“I am naturally pretty shy. I've come out of it a pretty good bit because I'm kind of a strange combination of being really shy and also being a born entertainer. I've got both in me and I guess it depends on my surroundings as to what's going to come out more prominently.”

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“Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.”

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