Illiberal Democracies Quotes

#1. I had experienced sex without love, and love without sex, and now I wanted nothing to do with either of them.

Lisa Kleypas

#2. I realized that I love him pure and simple. It's not a matter of logic or function. It's a matter of my heart.

T.J. Klune

#3. Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#4. But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who possess divinity necessary become divine. Each happy individual is therefore divine. While only God is so by nature, as many as you like may become so by participation.

Boethius

#5. A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.

Lorrie Moore

#6. We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests that something that is physically wrong in a brain is wholly unrelated to that person's upbringing or experiences in the world, but that is not necessarily true.

Siri Hustvedt

#7. For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

Jim Hodges