“They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything virtuous about poor people, it was simply because poor people had no money.”
― Interesting Times
― Interesting Times
“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
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“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“The Empire's got something worse than whips all right. It's got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them what to do. Freedom just means being told what to do by someone different.”
― Interesting Times
― Interesting Times
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