Chuot Quotes & Sayings

Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature. — Arundhati Roy

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure — Patrick Henry

Dear 2016,

If I has any defeats in your term, I am glad they were on my terms!

Best,
The Defeated Winner — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision. — Mariella Frostrup

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them. — Hayao Miyazaki

Finally a woman confesses! Confess what? What women never allowed themselves to confess. What men always criticized on them: they only obey the blood and everything is sex on them, even the spirit. — Pauline Reage

Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequal potential. To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy. The unlimited democracies were unstable because their citizens were not responsible for the fashion in which they exerted their sovereign authority ... other than through the tragic logic of history ... No attempt was made to determine whether a voter was socially responsible to the extent of his literally unlimited authority. If he voted the impossible, the disastrous possible happened instead - and responsibility was then forced on him willy-nilly and destroyed both him and his foundationless temple. — Robert A. Heinlein

The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states. — Najib Razak

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling. — Havelock Ellis

In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need — Nora Roberts