"I've tended to lean more toward the Dalai Lama and people like Russell Means who have been my political and spiritual North Stars, but I certainly regard Nelson Mandela with great respect and humility."

-- Ian Astbury

#Spiritual Quotes #Stars Quotes #Humility Quotes

“If I knew exactly what I know now and had it to do over, I'd be a switch hitter. No telling what I could have done.”
“The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”
“How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?”

Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee
“Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.”
“Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.”
“If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can only be one thing that is serious for him - to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: How to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious.”
“Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.”
“It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals. And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals, they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to the nature of their acts.”

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