"What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life."

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Source : Jack Vance (1981). “Star King”, p.36, Spatterlight Press

Jack Vance

#Pain Quotes #Men Quotes #Evil Quotes

“WHOAAAA. THERE GOES CODY RHOOOOODESSSS. WHOAAAA. YOU'RE ONLY SMOKE AND MIRRORSSSSSSS. WHOAAAA. YOU'RE ONLY SMOKE AND MIRRORSSSSSSS. What's up, man?”
“Raids are slightly constipating.”
“The law must have the last word.”

Source : "France braced for 12th night of riots" by James Sturcke, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2005.
“Wisdom married to immortal verse.”
“The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle”

Source : Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars.
“Politics is like boxing â€” you try to knock out your opponents.”
“I think the most important thing for me is putting out records that document ideas.”
“So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.”

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