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“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”
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“The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.”
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“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”
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“The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.”
Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.
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“There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.”
Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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“I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'”
Source : A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.59, North Point Press
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“As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.”
Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.188, The New Press
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“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”
Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
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“The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.”
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“The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.”
