Lud's Quotes

#1. Set we forward; let
A Roman and a British ensign wave
Friendly together. So through Lud's town march,
And in the temple of the great Jupiter
Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts.
Set on there! Never was a war did cease,
Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.

William Shakespeare

#2. A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

Hope Mirrlees

#3. I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it survives, will be far simpler - and the technologies, too. Then we will have come full circle to something like life on the savanna.

Kirkpatrick Sale

#4. It feels great to read but greater to write.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

Hunter S. Thompson

#6. But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can give
impudence to his betters!

Hope Mirrlees

#7. Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

Hope Mirrlees

#8. Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Hope Mirrlees

#9. Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

Hope Mirrlees

#10. There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.

Maria Sharapova

#11. I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite ... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite
which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.

Ingrid Newkirk

#12. There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

Hope Mirrlees

#13. It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

Hope Mirrlees

#14. So fine a medicine is the will to action.

Hope Mirrlees

#15. Whenever we tamper with natural laws, there are consequences," the count said. "The larger the disruption, the larger the consequence.

Maile Meloy