"The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free."

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Source : 1962 Rationalism in Politics.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#Past Quotes #Voice Quotes #May Quotes

“Every day, IRS agents levy liens on homes, bank accounts, and businesses; they confiscate cars, furniture, boats, and other personal property without the constitutional protections of due notice, hearing, and due process. If a person forcibly resists, government agents kill him for resisting arrest.”
“Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you'd find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course... they're altogether a higher class of fat lady.”
“I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.”

Source : "Fictional character: Faramir". 'The Two Towers' ('The Lord of the Rings'), Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954.
“Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain”
“When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.”

Source : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.23, Criss Jami
“The bravest men are subject most to chance.”
“It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.”
“When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor.”

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