Untyed Quotes & Sayings

The opinion that any Monarch receiveth his Power by Covenant, that is to say on Condition, proceedeth from want of understanding this easie truth, that Covenants being but words, and breath, have no force to oblige, contain, constrain, or protect any man, but what it has from the publique Sword; that is, from the untyed hands of that Man, or Assembly of men that hath the Soveraignty, and whose actions are avouched by them all, and performed by the strength of them all, in him united. But when an Assembly of men is made Soveraigne; then no man imagineth any such Covenant to have past in the Institution; for no man is so dull as to say, for example, the People of Rome, made a Covenant with the Romans, to hold the Soveraignty on such or such conditions; which not performed, the Romans might lawfully depose the Roman People. — Thomas Hobbes

This is a standard meditation instruction that you can embody in the entirety of your life: do not act out and do not repress. See what happens if you don't do either of those things. — Pema Chodron

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun. — Iain Banks

never humanize your victims. It shouldn't have been such an issue when dealing with methane-breathing medusae. — Peter Watts

I would rather live 10 years doing what I Love, than drag through Life 50 years, hating every day I Live.-RVM — R.v.m.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. — Thomas Jefferson

What's going on? A soul? Did you say, a soul? What the hell! Next thing you know we'll have cholera again. What did I tell you? [He tossed the thin one on his horns.] I told you so ... we should operate on all of them, on the imagination. Extirpate the imagination. Surgery's the only answer ... nothing but surgery ... — Yevgeny Zamyatin