"A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals."

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“I try to write art theory down and understand it but I'm not a writer. I don't want to impress people with my writing. I'd rather impress people with my ability to see and feel it and then share that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Never apologize, it's all part of the trick.”
“Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do the same thing, we'd call it theft. When government does it, we euphemistically call it income redistribution, but that's exactly what thieves do - redistribute income. Income redistribution not only betrays the founders' vision, it's a sin in the eyes of God.”

Source : "Bogus Right" by Walter E. Williams, econfaculty.gmu.edu. February 8, 2006.
“In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.”

Source : "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.
“Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.”
“I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!”
“I think liberals should accept that if we want big programs that significantly reduce inequality - and we should - it's going to require higher taxes on everyone. The rich can certainly do more, especially given their stupendous income increases since the Reagan era, but they can't do it all.”

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