Pillages Quotes

#1. Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract.

Jeffrey Tucker

#2. Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

Angelo Donghia

#3. Gravity is a response to geometry.

Albert Einstein

#4. 'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.

Bruce Cockburn

#5. Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Nikita Khrushchev

#6. The human heart is the same the world over.

Billy Graham

#7. The over-all impression is one of a town that is waiting to die. It is not enough, these days, to say that Chamberlain will never be the same. It may be closer to the truth to say that Chamberlain will simply never again be.

Stephen King

#8. Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you.

Emily St. John Mandel

#10. When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

Ho Chi Minh

#11. I had my first kiss under a tree near the school. It was with a boy named Michael who rarely spoke, but he would sometimes give me one of the cookies from his lunch. Maybe it was the gifts that made me feel special? I don't know, but when our lips touched, it felt magical.

Paula Abdul

#12. You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love.

Michael Adam Hamilton