#ann

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#certainly #doubt #engine #leave #lodged

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#cannot #get #getting #know #least

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#am #american #american music #aside #because

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#change #goes #laws #long #long time

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#brothers #families #films #gradually #happened

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#alone #another #being #cannot #creatures

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#arm #cannot #change #effect #evil

9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#allah #around #avengers #before #bush

If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#anesthetic #behind #benevolence #birth #birth control

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#been #equality #evidently #great #greater