Social Facilitation Quotes

#1. It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Herbert Hoover

#2. New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

Jim C. Hines

#3. Someday, I'm going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner - but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Patricia Briggs

#4. Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Aldous Huxley

#5. The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

Ken Livingstone

#6. There was nothing in the room the next minute but the sunshine and a sense that I must stay.

Henry James

#7. The conversations were miles beyond Jo's comprehension, but she enjoyed it, though Kant and Hegel were unknown gods, the Subjective and Objective unintelligible terms, and the only thing 'evolved from her inner consciousness' was a bad headache after it was all over.

Louisa May Alcott

#8. The people who want to be recognized as the greatest traders are probably not the greatest traders. Egos get in the way of the process. In my opinion, you never want to be the largest player in the pit.

Blair Hull

#9. He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude.
Yeah, those are the words.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#10. LESS fabrication, MORE facilitation

Ted Rubin

#11. Neither must he use himself to cut off actions only, but thoughts and imaginations also, that are unnecessary for so will unnecessary consequent actions the better be prevented and cut off.

Marcus Aurelius

#12. Gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, but comes as an evil guest to those who receive it in the hand.

Gene Wolfe