All Quotes

"It will always happen when a thing is originally wrong that amendments do not make it right, and it oftens happens that they do as much mischief one way as good the other..."

"Titles are but nick-names, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it. It reduces man into the diminutive of man in things which are great, and the counterfeit of women in things which are little. It talks about its fine blue ribbon like a girl, and shows its new garter like a child. A certain writer, of some antiquity, says: "When I was a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.""

"The genuine mind of man, thirsting for its native home, society contemns the gewgaws that separate him from it. Titles are like circles drawn by the magician's wand, to contract the sphere of man's felicity."

"Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-descript."

"The world has seen this folly fall, and it has fallen by being laughed at, and the farce of titles will follow its fate. The patriots of France have discovered in good time that rank and dignity in society must take a new ground. The old one has fallen through. It must now take the substantial ground of character, instead of the chimerical ground of titles; and they have brought their titles to the altar, and made of them a burnt-offering to Reason."

"Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice."

"There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive justice are corrupted at the very source. They begin life trampling on all their younger brothers and sisters, and relations of every kind, and are taught and educated so to do. With what ideas of justice or honor can that man enter a house of legislation, who absorbs in his own person the inheritance of a whole family of children, or metes out some pitiful portion with the insolence of a gift?"

"The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat."

"A body of men, holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by any body."

"[A]ristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species. By the universal economy of nature it is known, and by the instance of the Jews it is proved, that the human species has a tendency to degenerate, in any small number of persons, when separated from the general stock of society, and inter-marrying constantly with each other."

"The greatest characters the world have known have arisen on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy."

"Toleration is not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding Liberty of Conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the Pope armed with fire and faggot, and the other is the Pope selling or granting indulgences. The former is church and state, and the latter is church and traffic."

"With respect to what are called denominations of religion, if every one is left to judge of its own religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is wrong; but if they are to judge of each other's religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is right; and therefore all the world is right, or all the world is wrong. But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the Divine object of all adoration, it is man bringing to his Maker the fruits of his heart; and though those fruits may differ from each other like the fruits of the earth, the grateful tribute of every one is accepted."

"All religions are in their nature kind and benign, and united with principles of morality. They could not have made proselytes at first by professing anything that was vicious, cruel, persecuting, or immoral. Like everything else, they had their beginning; and they proceeded by persuasion, exhortation, and example. How then is it that they lose their native mildness, and become morose and intolerant?"

"[T]he remedy of force can never supply the remedy of reason."

"It is the nature of conquest to turn everything upside down."

"They stand not aloof with the gaping vacuity of vulgar ignorance, nor bend with the cringe of sycophantic insignificance. The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man."

"Submission is wholly a vassalage term, repugnant to the dignity of freedom, and an echo of the language used at the Conquest."

"My husband is teaching me to drive a standard. He's a professor anyways - he's not a bad teacher, if you know what I mean."

"People go, 'You're going to be so happy driving; it's going to feel so free.' And I felt the very opposite of free. I felt like a person with 2,000 pounds of dangerous, dangerous metal strapped to my back, rattling around."

"And it occurred to me early on that if you were just an old bat, all of those things could disappear and you could just be yourself, right? You could just be funny, or a person, or you could say what you liked, and you wouldn't have to worry… It was like a way to break through that incredibly oppressive thing that is put over you, or you put it over yourself as a young woman, you know?"

"Recently it was happening in the social media. But it was happening behind me. I did not know anything. The Lord made me not to know it."

"And they were talking, talking, talking until another night. I think this man was sent by this man whom I don’t even know."

"And this man was so serious and wanting to push me into those things. And I said no. I need to pray."

"But I knew I was not going to say yes because my father never walked that way. And then I went and told the day-to-day board at the HQ."

"I say to them, “you will hear people talking about this. I’ve just heard this. But me, I’m not going to take that money and I don’t want that car that land cruiser because I already have the land cruiser that I’ve been driving for all these years."

"And I said no, I’m not the person to do that. I am not going to take that money. They better use it somewhere but not even on our projects, no. We don’t want that."

"There are some young girls out there l have interacted with who have expresses their strong desire to emulate what l do. ln the book l have written on a lot of issues which are going motivate the youths"

"They say that they want to behave,dress,speak and do a lot of things emulating me.l feel that the book has provided me an opportunity to tell the youths the journey l have travelled to where l am now,"

"Women, you are highly favored of God."

"When I heard people talking especially the young generation saying that they want to be like me, from dressing, praying, preaching, behaving like me, I then thought of why not put it in a book"

"This book is thematic with the main theme being the experiences of Dr Eunor Guti as wife and co-worker to Arch Bishop Guti, a personality who fits the larger than life character label…few wives to prominent men of God have shared their personal lives the way she did in this book"

"The book is not only inspiring but informing and educating..story shared candidly with Professor Guti not projecting herself as perfect but as someone striving to please God and God granting grace youths can relate…and likely be inspired to emulate her in seeking God and eschew evil"

"As we went around the world with the late Archbishop Ezekiel Guti, preaching the word, people would rejoice at seeing us, but once we bought out EJ, they would cringe as if we had brought along an animal. However, we would not let it affect us as we knew that he was a child just like any other. This is the philosophy we instilled in him. Children are being subjected to stigma; this is why we need a school such as this"

"A man of tremendous energy, he greatly increased his worldly possessions, and collected a huge treasure-store of precious objects. He claimed for himself alone the hunting rights all over England, and even had the feet of dogs living in the neighbourhood of forests mutilated, only grudgingly allowing a few of his greatest nobles and closest friends the privilege of hunting in their own woods. A diligent investigator, he inquired into everything, and retained all he heard in his tenacious memory. He wished to know all the business of officials and dignitaries; and, since he was an assiduous ruler, kept an eye on the many happenings in England and Normandy. He was thoroughly familiar with all secrets and things done surreptitiously, so that their perpetrators could not imagine how the king could be aware of their most secret plots. After a thorough study of past histories, I confidently assert that no king in the English realm was ever more richly or powerfully equipped than Henry in everything that contributes to worldly glory."

"Both these aspects of patronage, the governmental and the social, are of the very greatest importance in the Middle Ages. It would be an exaggeration to say that it was Henry I who made them so; but it was he who first controlled the whole range of government-patronage with which we are later familiar; and it is under him that we can first observe the effects of this patronage at all closely."

"He was of middle stature, exceeding the diminutive, but exceeded by the very tall: his hair was black, but scanty near the forehead; his eyes mildly bright; his chest brawny; his body fleshy: he was facetious in proper season, nor did multiplicity of business cause him to be less pleasant when he mixed in society. Not prone to personal combat, he verified the saying of Scipio Africanus, "My mother bore me a commander, not a soldier;" wherefore he was inferior in wisdom to no king of modern time; and, as I may almost say, he clearly surpassed all his predecessors in England, and preferred contending by counsel, rather than by the sword. If he could, he conquered without bloodshed; if it was unavoidable, with as little as possible."

"I lie wounded on wintery ground. With hundred of corpses around. Many wounded crawl helplessly around. On the blood red snowy ground."

"When night falls She cloaks the world In impenetrable darkness."

"Maggots crawling in her cunt. I just love to lick that shit."

"De roos bade 't hoofd in den stralenden gloed, Wen eens haar de storrem ontluistert, verdoet, Zoo moge z' in 't duister verflensen."

"Schoon de dag nag marre Schittert door 't azuur Vast der avondstarre Rozenkwistend vuur."

"Behind Gianroberto Casaleggio there is only Gianroberto Casaleggio. An ordinary citizen who, with his work and his (limited) resources, seeks, without any public or private funding, perhaps deluding himself, sometimes even making mistakes, to improve the society in which he lives."

"I am here. I am here, that is my name. Beppe Grillo and I are on the same level. Whether I write or he writes, it does not matter. We are the founders of the ive Star Movement. This happened yesterday morning. Neither I nor Beppe Grillo have ever drawn up lists for municipal and regional elections. Neither I nor Beppe Grillo have ever written a municipal or regional programme. Neither I nor Beppe Grillo have ever given instructions for council votes, nor infiltrated people into the Five Star Movement."

"An idea is neither right-wing nor left-wing. It is an idea, good or bad."

"Show me a modern politician who doesn't understand the internet, and I'll show you a loser.ù"

"Every time you break a rule, you practically cancel it out."

"Direct democracy, made possible by the Internet, does not only relate to popular consultations, but to a new centrality of citizens in society. Current political and social organisations will be dismantled, and some will disappear. Representative democracy, by proxy, will lose its meaning. It is a cultural revolution rather than a technological one, which is why it is often misunderstood or trivialised."

"Every constituency should be able to dismiss and therefore remove from office any member of parliament who shirks their duties at any time through local referendums."

"The Internet will become like air, as Nicholas Negroponte prophesied."