"We're living in a den of thieves"

-- Regina Spektor

#Thieves Quotes #Dens Quotes

“The Republic can count on me to battle its enemies... Offensive war suits the passionate character of the French, but it is the responsibility of the man in charge of leading them to prepare with caution and wisdom everything that leads to victory.”

Source : Tom Reiss (2012). “The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo”, p.163, Random House
“Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.”

Source : "Athenaeum" magazine, #366, 1798.
“My own theory is that people are just so desperate for somebody they can feel better than, in America. Now that everyone's going broke and working 17 jobs - if they have one at all - at least they can look at these guys behind bars and think, "At least I get to wear my own clothes to work."”
“We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.”
“It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.”
“I don't have to think. My only job is to show up and win.”
“I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.”
“Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.”

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