Staraid Quotes & Sayings

A concrete example of this mechanism is found in one of the most alarming phenomena of the last thirty years: the enormous increase in the police force of all countries. The increase of population has inevitably rendered it necessary. However accustomed we may be to it, the terrible paradox should not escape our minds that the population of a great modern city, in order to move about peaceably and attend to its business, necessarily requires a police force to regulate the circulation. But it is foolishness for the party of "law and order" to imagine that these "forces of public authority" created to preserve order are always going to be content to preserve the order that that party desires. Inevitably they will end by themselves defining and deciding on the order they are going to impose- which, naturally, will be that which suits them best. — Ortega Y Gasset

The character for 'love' is composed of two parts...the character for 'heart' embraced by 'acceptance. — Tamura Yumi

Thus it is our daughters leave us,
Those we love, and those who love us!
Just when they have learned to help us,
When we are old and lean upon them,
Comes a youth with flaunting feathers,
With his flute of reeds, a stranger
Wanders piping through the village,
Beckons to the fairest maiden,
And she follows where he leads her,
Leaving all things for the stranger! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire? — Bharati Mukherjee

The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem. — Matt Drudge

Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill. — Elsa Schiaparelli