Polities Quotes

#1. When shall the saner softer polities Whereof we dream, have play in each proud land, And patriotism, grown Godlike, scorn to stand Bondslave to realms, but circle earth and seas?

Thomas Hardy

#2. The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each individual man according to his mad and injudicious ideas: hardly any, except the polities of Sparta and of Crete, have entrusted the education of children to their laws.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. Private ownerships of a ... slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monopoly, much like other forms of violence. But I had fallen among pirates and life insurance underwriters.

Charles Stross

#4. In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

Ezra Stiles

#5. Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

William Irwin Thompson

#6. certain kinds of polities, communist party-states such as the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, are capable, in times of peace, of killing large numbers of their own citizens as a matter of deliberate policy.

Timothy Snyder

#7. Quinn," Alaric said quietly. "His aim is to ignite your temper. Perhaps you might allow me the chance to assist you this one time?"
"Fine, but you seem to be making a habit of it," she shot back. "We can discuss that later, too. Be my guest."

Alyssa Day

#8. It's so hard being goth. You have to have a bad time everywhere.

Clint Catalyst

#9. The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

Robert Pinsky

#10. The way I look at the world, if you can't find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed.

James Rebhorn

#11. I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day.

Becky G

#12. His exhaled smoke was the exact colour of ennui.

Daniel Kraus

#13. When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.

Craig Groeschel