"Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox."

-- Peter De Vries

#Punishment Quotes #Waste Quotes #Delay Quotes

“We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to â€œrenounce his personality,â€ and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.”
“It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is as Kipling put it, to fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.”
“I am receptive to the inflow and outpouring of the universe.”
“There is a terrible loneliness in the spring ...”
“Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created - nothing.”
“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.”

Source : Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco
“Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.”
“War's balance will prevail.”

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