"What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more."

Source : Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.125, VM eBooks

Herbert Spencer

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“When things change, I think that's easy to get really wrapped up in the complaints.”
“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.”

Source : Grant Morrison (2011). “Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero”, p.415, Random House
“I'm not a big fan of TV. It's an unavoidable situation being Ozzy Osbourne, people want you to go on chat shows, and I'm not good at it. I don't feel comfortable doing it.”
“When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone.”
“If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

Source : Anna Laetitia Waring, “Father, I Know That All My Life”
“That's what life is all about: Let's have a party. Let's have it tonight.”
“Public reformers had need first practice on their own hearts that which they purpose to try on others.”
“It doesn't take a brilliant mind to notice that adults are telling you what to do and then they do the opposite. I mean, I can't recall every stupid thing that adults were doing when I was six or seven. Some of it was the religious restrictions, where there were certain things that you were allowed to do and certain things that you weren't allowed to do, and I couldn't make sense of those things.”

Source : "A Kinder, Gentler Neil LaBute? Getting Romantic With 'Possession'". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. August 14, 2002.

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