"States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today."

-- David Graeber

#Today Quotes #States Quotes #Form Quotes

“It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.”
“Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.”

Source : William Ramsay (1909). “Essays Biographical and Chemical”
“It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.”
“Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this consent of 'the people' exists only in theory. It has no existence in fact. Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (1847). “The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second”, p.153
“You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.”
“As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.”
“If you can't beat them. Join them”

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