Mychael Shane Quotes

#1. What are we?
Young or new?
We must be something.

Robert Frost

#2. There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.

Noam Chomsky

#3. On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

Tao Lin

#4. Oh! If such an one was to come from God, and not the Devil, what a force for good might he not be in this old world of ours.

Bram Stoker

#5. Without the sense that individuals are responsible for their own actions, and that there are appropriate consequences to violating society's most basic values, the concepts of morality and right and wrong become meaningless. And then you have no society.

Mark Olshaker

#6. [Nineteenth century American educator] Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.

Dana Goldstein

#7. I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.

Milton Friedman

#8. I know we're going to die. There's three of us who are going to do something about it.

Tom Burnett

#9. If the fluidification of forms of behavior required by a developed economy was incompatible with a normative catalog of restrained conduct, it was, however, perfectly suited to a perpetual celebration of the will and the ego.

Michel Houellebecq

#10. My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book.

James Salter