Potestades Discrecionales Quotes & Sayings

How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent controlled starvation and confirmed how quickly it impacts the initiative and generosity we like to think of as "American" characteristics. — Nathaniel Philbrick

The higher the goal, the harder the climb, but after that the bigger the muscle the, smarter the mind. — Big Sean

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them. — Lysander Spooner

Between an egg that is fried and an egg that is cremated there is a wide and substantial difference. — P.G. Wodehouse

If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces. — George Bernard Shaw

There will not be a "surplus" of capital until the most backward country is as well equipped technologically as the most advanced, until the most inefficient factory in America is brought abreast of the factory with the latest and finest equipment, and until the most modern tools of production have reached a point where human ingenuity is at a dead end, and can improve them no further. As long as any of these conditions remains unfulfilled, there will be indefinite room for more capital. — Henry Hazlitt

I have a human tornado playing jump rope with my guts. Hard to sleep with Cirque de Bebe going on beind my belly button. — JB Salsbury

The handwriting was a girl's. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive. — David Levithan

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface . — Aldous Huxley

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators. — Sigmund Freud

Anyway, it was big and I set up the trickiest structure. Accounts all over the world and money flying around like ... The right mix of drugs and Remy Martin. Like a big whirl of light and money, pulsating like it was alive, like one of those glowing jellyfish things deep in the ocean.
His voice softened and the distance that was always between Mickey and the world melted away as he spoke. I had the first glimpse into what passed for Mickey's soul: a love for illegal mathematics. — Dan Ahearn

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society. — Richard Ebeling