A Quotes
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“All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.”
“All good things, all godly things, have been counterfeited by the devil.”
Source: The Character of Leadership: Nine Qualities that Define Great Leaders
“All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action”
“All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.”
“All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“All good warriors are seekers of truth. They want to live in a peaceful corner. But war comes to them wherever they go. Since they are blessed with the power of destruction, people keep coming to them to get destructed.”
“All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.”
“All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.”
“All good work requires self-revelation.”
Source: Making Movies
“All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with real comedy, there will be tragic moments in it.”
“All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them”
“All good writers are weird. Proudly weird.”
Source: Kissing in America
“All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.”
“All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.”
“All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.”
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
“All good writing leaves something unexpressed.”
“All good writing reflects and illuminates life; Fast Funny Women holds up a compact mirror. In it you'll see yourself. With luck, you'll laugh.”
Source: Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction
“All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.”
“All goodness comes from God.”
“All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.”
“All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.”
Source: Works
“All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.”
Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir
“All government is an ugly necessity.”
“All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“All government is founded on compromise and banter.”
“All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.”
“All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.”
“All government wars are unjust.”
“All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.”
“All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”
“All government, of course, is against liberty.”
“all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.”
“All governments are a facade, all politicians are merely actors.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“All governments are a facade,
all politicians are merely actors.
In a civilized world citizen is the leader,
obsolete is the profession of world leaders.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.”
“All governments are lying cocksuckers.”
“All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.”
“All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.”
“All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.”
“All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot!”
“All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“All governments require enemy governments.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“All Governments rest mainly on public opinion, and to that of his own subjects every wise Sovereign will look. The opinion of his subjects will force a Sovereign to do his duty, and by that opinion will he be exalted or depressed in the politics of the world.”
“All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.”
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”