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 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 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

• 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

• When it comes to work, I'm not competitive at all. Having Cara as my baby, I had to learn quite quickly that I couldn't be competitive because I had a sister who meant more to me. And I knew she was going to be brilliant, so I had to become very aware of not comparing.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Work
  • She
  • Baby

• I'm bored. I'm bored with the kind of parts I get offered. I can do more.

  

  Katharine Ross
  • Bored

• I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I put all of my heart and soul into these love songs. I know my fans out there are listening, taking these songs to heart. Like I say, they're relating these songs to their lives, too, and their relationships.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Singing

• The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Night
  • Moon

• While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

  

  Boyle Roche
  • Hand

• From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

  

  Rex Hunt
  • Thinking
  • Teaching
  • Fantastic

• Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Important
  • Love
  • Art

• I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

  

  Martin Scorsese

• It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.

  

  Steven Heighton
  • Age
  • Write
  • View

• A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

  

  Rene Char
  • Dreams
  • Poet
  • Passage

• 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