"A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets him ... Every passing coachman called out to me: "Do you want to ride on the outside?" If I met only a farm worker on a horse he would say to me companionably "Warm walking sir," and when I passed through a village the old women in their bewilderment would let out a "God Almighty!"

-- Karl Philipp Moritz

#Country Quotes #Horse Quotes #Village Quotes

“In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representatives who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.”

Source : "The View From Chaos Manor". Jerry Pournelle's blog, www.jerrypournelle.com. April 3, 2006.
“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”
“We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.”
“I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.”
“A half-truth is usually less than half of that.”
“To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.”

Source : Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.97, Autonomedia
“My books are offered through Podiobooks.com and the iTunes Music Store as free audio downloads. I don't sell them.”
“You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.”

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