Lysander Spooner Quotes

A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.

Lysander Spooner

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• It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • People
  • Man
  • Daughter

• People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Intellectual

• During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • History
  • Economic
  • Through

• The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Problems
  • Habit

• The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Time
  • World
  • School

• I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Girl
  • Understand
  • Camera

• I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Point
  • Horrible

• My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Year

• I love driving in the city at night.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Night
  • City
  • Driving

• Sir Rosevelt is a little more of a persona, and we dress up, three-piece Tom Ford suits, and it's a little more refined, visually.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • More
  • Dress

• I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Myself
  • Hands
  • Los Angeles

• For all we knowOf what the blessed do aboveIs, that they sing, and that they love.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Blessed

• Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Single

• I’d always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn’t even put her in the oven.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Words
  • Moving
  • Moments

• But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.

  

  Maurice Jarre

• I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Up
  • Growing

• What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.

  

  Allan Houston

• Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Novel

• You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Business

• I'm very good at being out of work.

  

  Kevin Whately
  • Good
  • Work

• I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?

  

  Alexander Koch
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.

  

  Lysander Spooner