"we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good."

-- Katherine Anne Porter

#Government Quotes #Evil Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.”
“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”
“I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.”
“With â€˜Avatar,â€™ I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guysâ€™ adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mold, like John Carter of Marsâ€”a soldier goes to Mars,”
“Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.”
“All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.”
“Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.”
“Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.”

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