"Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire."

-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#Liberty Quotes #Desire Quotes #Libertarian Quotes

“Sometimes it seems to me that thatâ€™s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.”

Source : Emil Nolde (1966). “Unpainted pictures: Emil Nolde, 1867-1956”
“In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for True Detective was one of them.”
“Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on the temple of the gods. To know himself, LinnÃ¦us declared to be the essential indisputable distinction of man above all other creatures. I know, indeed, in study nothing more worthy of free and thoughtful man than the study of himself. For if we look for the purpose of our existence, we cannot possibly find it outside ourselves. We are here for our own sake.”
“And so one may be without connection with any church, and even without connection with any established religion, and yet be in spirit, hence in reality, a much truer Christian than hosts of those who profess to be His most ardent followers, as indeed Jesus Himself so many times says. "By their fruits ye shall know them," said He. "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."”
“A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."”
“Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.”
“Home. It's such a simple word, one I never knew would come to mean as much to me as it has. It once was my dad's house, then my uncle's farm. Mostly it's meant wherever Charlie and I were together. Now, though, it's you. It's your letters, your words. They're the place I go to with my fears, where I find comfort, where I feel safe.”
“It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.”

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