Quotes
Authors
Carl Hiaasen
"Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice." --
Carl Hiaasen
#Government Quotes
#Law Quotes
#Choices Quotes
“... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.”
“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.”
“Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.”
Source : "The Computer - My Life".
“If they liked you, they didn't applaud -- they let you live.”
“When leaders care less about their people, their people will be careless.”
“The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.”
“I don't know how not to get the flu.”
“I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!”