Bastard Brat of a Scotch Peddler
-John Adams on Alexander Hamilton
History is a tragedy, not a morality tale
– I. F. Stone
When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will
– Frédéric Bastiat
Looking backward fucks with your neck
-Gary Vaynerchuk
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
– H. L. Mencken
No piece in a World Chess Champion set is harder to make than the knight, that alone takes 2 hours to hand carve each time.
-Business Insider
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
-C.S. Lewis
I’m Lowell Bergman, I’m from 60 Minutes. You know, you take the 60 Minutes out of that sentence, nobody returns your phone call.
-“The Insider” 1999
To preserve power indefinitely, you have to get consent of the ruled. They have to want, to some degree, to be dominated.
-Unknown
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation.
-John Updike