Clapz Channel Quotes & Sayings

If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people, and teaching whatever will tend to keep it secure in its seat. — Voltairine De Cleyre

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other. — Francois Hollande

The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings. — Michel De Montaigne

Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion. — Robert Charles Wilson

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it. — Chesley Sullenberger

The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that's it's more important. — Ian MacKaye

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all. — Henry Rollins

I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career. — Arnold Palmer