"Nowadays it's those hedonistic wastrels who pollute the air so that they can look at some pretty fish in the South Seas. It would be better if we only ever rode bikes. Oh, there's always someone wagging a finger in disapproval."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Hans von Storch

#Air Quotes #Sea Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.”
“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.”

Source : "Genius declared: Wilde tops the wit list" by Aidan Jones, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2007.
“What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it.”

Source : "The War — Its Cause and Cure". teachingamericanhistory.org. May 03, 1861.
“We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in consequence of their transgressions a curse has been inflicted upon them - in the darkness of their skins. We will have intermarriages with them, they marrying our young women, and we taking their young squaws to wife. By these means it is the will of the Lord that the curse of their color shall be removed and they restored to their pristine beauty...”
“The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.”

Source : 1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.148 (published 1831).
“I care about what the fans feel.”
“And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens.”
“We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.”

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