Saxon Switzerland Quotes

#1. Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Ivan Krastev

#2. It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.

Edward Hoagland

#3. I've been telling everyone for weeks now about how I get to play Lois Lane. It's a big deal. There are a few characters throughout your life which everyone knows and this is one of them. I can't wait.

Christina Hendricks

#4. And this is the origin of freewill, that Adam wished to be independent, [124] and dared to try what he was able to do.

John Calvin

#5. The circumstances of modern life seem to be conspiring to make experiences less satisfying than they could and perhaps should be, in part because of the richness against which we are comparing our own experiences. Again, as we'll see, an overload of choice contributes to this dissatisfaction.

Barry Schwartz

#6. Man is the only animal which causes pain to others with no other object than causing pain ... No animal ever torments another for the sake of tormenting: but man does so, and it is this which constitutes the diabolical nature which is far worse than the merely bestial

Arthur Schopenhauer

#7. Serenity comes from knowing what you can and can't change, Nancy

Patricia Cornwell

#8. The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,
the soldiery and the priesthood.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

Harold Brodkey