"If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won."

-- Marcus Mumford

#Enemy Quotes #Apathy Quotes #Bigger Quotes

“Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.”
“I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.”
“The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.”
“No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.”

Source : "The Latest Decalogue" l. 3 (1862)
“My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop... A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society.”
“Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.”
“Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.58
“Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the New York Times, the British monarchy now exists primarily 'for our amusement'. But as long as people find it amusing, and want to be amused by it, they will be happy to see it undermined but uneager to kill it off.”

Source : David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA

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