"Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers."

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Source : David Hume (2010). “Moral and Political Philosophy”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

David Hume

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“For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill - not well ... Thus, though a patient will scarcely complain of being 'very well', they may become suspicious if they feel 'too well'.”
“The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.”
“Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.”
“Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.”

Source : "Jalil Lespert Uncovers An Icon" by Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2014.
“I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.”
“As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.”

Source : "Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1931.
“The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.”
“The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.”

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