"In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as profound, and in my work for years I've really tried to deal with subjects that are substantial, not just fluffy, but presented in a more playful, approachable kind of way.”

Source : "Interview: Ellen Forney on Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and 'Marbles'". Interview with Eddie Wright, www.mtv.com. November 28, 2012.
“The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!”
“It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “Littlefoot: A Poem”, p.9, Macmillan
“Making a wrong choice early may limit making the right choice later.”
“Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?”

Source : "Iconoclasts". Documentary, November 16, 2006.
“It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.”

Source : "Exiled author Ma Jian banned from visiting China" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.
“I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.”
“The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.”

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