"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Men Quotes #Doctrine Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.”

Source : "Transcript: George Packer on ‘The Empty Chamber’". Interview with Tom Casciato, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2010.
“Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.”
“Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!”
“We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.”

Source : Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”
“I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.”
“The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence in our Constitution that says: 'We will allow the good God to make plans for the future - for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come and we have only today to make Him known, loved and served.' So we do not worry about the future.”
“If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.”
“Too many dots," Miller said. "Not enough lines.”

Source : James S. A. Corey (2011). “Leviathan Wakes: Book 1 of the Expanse (now a major TV series on Netflix)”, p.75, Hachette UK

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