#hem

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#general #govern #governed #man #people

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#common sense #concern #deceiving #eyes #interested

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy. ↗

— Philip Sidney

#happiness #most #praised #praiseworthy #them

I do them all for the money, I really do. ↗

— William H. Macy

#i do #money #really #them

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. ↗

— Norodom Sihanouk

#history #inevitably #lies #place #them

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#bright #faint #feel #flourish #grows

The only problem is I can't get into PG-13 Land. I just get stuck in R rated movies, which they would love us to make PG-13 movies but I never get there. But I think that you've got to make them different. You've got to switch them up. ↗

— Joel Silver

#get #got #i #i think #into

Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly. ↗

— Dave Sim

#central #civilization #defending #destructive #feminists

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. ↗

— Charles Simic

#behind #equal #experience #never #orphan

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#career #create #effect #great #great career