"Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law."

-- Edward Abbey

#Government Quotes #Law Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“Confusion is the first step toward clarity”

Source : Syd Field (2008). “The Screenwriter's Workbook: Exercises and Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating a Successful Screenplay, Newly Revised and Updated”, p.134, Delta
“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.”

Source : G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press
“There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.”
“There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.”
“That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.”

Source : Euclid, Dana Densmore (2002). “Euclid's Elements: all thirteen books complete in one volume : the Thomas L. Heath translation”, Green Lion Pr
“Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.”
“You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.”

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