"To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns."

-- Tommy Douglas

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“I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.”
“Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.”
“I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.”
“Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.”

Source : "The Sayings of Chairman Barney" by Richard Reeves, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 2, 2011.
“It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out, and the reviewer can't put it off indefinitely with sneers, although some neophytes might be tempted to try: "When in doubt, stick out your tongue" is a safe rule that never cost one any readers. But there's nothing strong about it, and it has nothing to do with the real business of criticism, which is to do justice to the best work of one's time, so that nothing gets lost.”

Source : "Essays in Disguise" by Wilfrid Sheed, Knopf, (pp. xvi-xvii), 1990.
“When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.”
“The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'”
“Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.”

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