#iv

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#call #care #dealing #education #extremely

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#around #art #artists #bohemian #could

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#arab world #behave #behavior #certain #influence

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#any #become #becomes #children #cruelty

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#beat #begins #beirut #big #big city

Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#call #children #clean #dedication #development

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#alternatives #career #clearly #expensive #insisting

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#behind #car #doing #driving #housework

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#accidental #divinity #entire #entire universe #except

I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well. ↗

— John Oates

#competitive #found #general #i #most