"And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get."

-- Gregory David Roberts

#Party Quotes #Hands Quotes #Political Quotes

“POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.”
“Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”

Source : Chris McCubbin, David Ladyman, Sid Meier (1999). “Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri”
“Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.68
“Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France.”
“All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.”
“I find stuff written about me is in stark contrast to who I am. But I can sleep well at night knowing that I did my best - I'm looking forward to my next chapter, whatever that is.”
“Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.”

Source : Ronald A. HEIFETZ, Ronald A Heifetz (2009). “Leadership Without Easy Answers”, p.22, Harvard University Press
“With a close parliament, if the Government wants to get a good outcome for the nation, they can't play a game of lying to the public about what's in their own legislation. They can't do that.”

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