"Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet."

-- Benjamin Tucker

#Lying Quotes #Bully Quotes #Voting Quotes

“There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.”

Source : "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" CD liner notes,
“I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.”

Source : "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944
“I don't know what I think until I write it down.”

Source : "Joan Didion Survives 'The Year of Magical Thinking'". Interview with Susan Stamberg, www.npr.org. September 30, 2005.
“Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.”

Source : John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.85, Simon and Schuster
“A cat that jumps on a hot stove will never jump on a hot stove again. Neither will it jump on a cold stove.”
“How is it having more control if we have a recession as the Bank of England and IFS say?”
“Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.”
“What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?”

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