"If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Democracy Quotes #Politics Quotes #Honest Quotes

“Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.”

Source : Sir William Watson, John Alfred Spender (1905). “The Poems of William Watson”
“I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.”
“Five hundred thousand Americans die from tobacco poisoning every year, and it's legal. I don't know, it just that's the - you can't stop giving people organs because of bad behavior. If you keep on having bad behavior, then of course they'll deny you a liver, or whatever you need.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers”
“I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.”
“Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they park. You never have to worry about filling up your car, never go to the gas station, never plug it in, never do any of these things.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.”
“Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.”

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