#aria

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #aria




The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.


Christopher Hitchens


#religion

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.


Russell Brand


#drugs #heroin #vegetarianism #sexy

The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.


Robert Musil


#library #perspective

Throughout the history of our civilisation, two traditions, two opposed tendencies, have been in conflict: the Roman tradition and the popular tradition, the imperial tradition and the federalist tradition, the authoritarian tradition and the libertarian tradition.


Pyotr Kropotkin


#anarchy #libertarian #anarchism

Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation.


Frédéric Bastiat


#free-trade #libertarian #logical-thinking #economy

Why’s the faerie so obsessed with you anyway? You’re not that cute.” (Arianna to Evie)


Kiersten White


#obsession

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.


Michael Moore


#librarians #revolution

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.


Benjamin Franklin


#murder

...killing rats wasn’t in my job description.


Scott Douglas


#library #quiet-please #description

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.


George Orwell


#orwell #russian-revolution #satire #satire