Maxie Clem

“I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.”
― Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

“I remember the master, before he fell into a doze, stroking her bonny hair - it pleased him rarely to see her gentle - and saying - 'Why canst thou not always be a good lass, Cathy?' And she turned her face up to his, and laughed, and answered, 'Why cannot you always be a good man, father?”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“It is an adherent condition of human affairs that no intention, however sincere, of protecting the interests of others can make it safe or salutary to tie up their own hands. Still more obviously true is it, that by their own hands only can any positive and durable improvement of their circumstances in life be worked out.”
― John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government