#ra

Clever tyrants are never punished. ↗

— Voltaire

#never #punished #tyrants

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. ↗

— Voltaire

#hell #made #paradise #tender

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

#benevolent #best #government #occasional #tempered

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

#democracy #form #government #ideal #tempered

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. ↗

— Voltaire

#case #confirmation #news #sacrament #should

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#cleaning #exhaustion #frustration #i #laugh

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beings #cancer #communities #cure #eliminate

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#alone #although #answer #bother #care

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#here #moment #trapped #why

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#armor #attacked #expresses #full #hot