Arecoline Quotes & Sayings

I've become good at finding crumbs of comfort. Sometimes they're all you have to eat. — Mark Lawrence

the political scientist James Payne suggests that ancient peoples put a low value on other people's lives because pain and death were so common in their own. This set a low threshold for any practice that had a chance of bringing them an advantage, even if the price was the lives of others. — Steven Pinker

I never went out looking for glory. — Don Rickles

While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil. — Jean Kerr

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime. — Edward Snowden

In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these plots composed only about 2% of the agricultural lands in the Soviet Union, they produced 25% of the food! When Soviets kept the wealth they created, they produced almost 16 times more than when it was taken from them at gunpoint, if necessary! — Mary Ruwart