A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work ot make it better.

Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

That's how you win - pitching and defense.

I think we can take back Mosul, and then we can move on into Syria and take back Raqqa.

Let's get this started, people. It won't be long before we all lose our minds.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development

Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.