#heir

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#disappear #fulfill #magic #make #people

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#audition #children #expect #now #parents

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#justice #matter #most #people #regard

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#democracies #exhibit #form #law #masses

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#back #believe #better #cruelty #life

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#bullies #cowards #credited #heart #instinct

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#also #cuts #knows #likely #likes

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#boy #days #even #i #knew

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#effects #exceptions #general #particular #systems

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aimed #another #boldly #effecting #ends