Abdullah Afiq

“Do human beings ever realize life while they live it ?-every, every minute?”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“The splitting of sovereignty into many parts amounts to there being no sovereign.”
― Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution

“You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor... Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.”
― Walter Bagehot, Biographical Studies

“I’m awfully interested in how big things begin. You know how it is; you’re twenty-one or twenty-two and you make some decisions. . . then whissh! you’re seventy. You’ve been a lawyer for fifty years and that white-haired lady by your side has eaten over 50,000 meals with you. How do such things begin?”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town