Hans Volter Quotes & Sayings

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. — James Madison

Sed lex, dura lex," said Balogh. The latin phrase had been hammered into them from the first day of the Academy, and Simon was comming to hate the sound of it -so often was it used as an excuse for acting like monsters. — Cassandra Clare

I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable. — Gertrude Jekyll

To live in a realm wracked with chaos is to live with pain, anguishing memories, and trolls. But it is also means living with unicorns. — C. Gockel

Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

You loved her. I would feel the same if someone wanted to erase Scarlet's identity and give it to Levana's army. — Marissa Meyer

Avoid success at all costs — Simon Peyton Jones

Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded. — Charles Lamb

It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too. — Jimmy Durante

War is chaos. It always has been. But technology makes it worse. It changes the fear. At the Institute, I feared men. I feared what Titus and the Jackal could do to me. You see death coming there and can at least struggle against it. Here you don't have such luxury. Modern war is fearing the air, the shadows, fearing the silence. Death will com and I won't even see it. ~Darrow — Pierce Brown

Through Hinduism, I feel a better person. I just get happier and happier. I now feel that I am unlimited, and I am more in control of my own physical body. The thing is, you go to an ordinary church and it's a nice feeling. They tell you all about God, but they don't show you how the way. They don't show you how to become Christ-concious yourself. Hinduism, however, is different. — George Harrison

Finish the book. Finish the book, regardless of how bad it is. You can make it better in a rewrite. — Joe Hill

We took a bus to Victoria, then passed on foot into a vast, desolate region of stucco streets and squares upon which a doom seemed to have fallen. The gloom was cosmic. — Anthony Powell

In all previously existing democracies, there have been two types of authority: one coming from the people and the other coming from the enemy. Enemy stereotypes empower. Enemy stereotypes have the highest conflict priority. They make it possible to cover up and force together all the other social antitheses. One could say that enemy stereotypes constitute an alternative energy source for consensus, a raw material becoming scarce with the development of modernity. They grant exemption from democracy by its own consent [143]. — Ulrich Beck