#fish

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#efforts #governments #law #liberty #man

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#could #fish #genius #island #made

I'm going to gut you like a fish. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#going #gut #i #like #you

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#fish #governing #great #great nation #handling

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#fish #govern #great #great nation #nation

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. ↗

— James Bovard

#bad #bad government #docile #good #good government

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#everybody #fish #granted #important #important thing

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#body #eyes #fins #fish #flash

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens. ↗

— David Brin

#america #been #before #being #bio

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#fishes #go #i #joy #know