#rather

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out. ↗

— Alan Moore

#better world #blowing #die #energy #get

I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#few #friends #had #honour #husband

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#ideologies #ideology #institution #nor #processes

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#alienation #away #basic #collectivism #countries

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#banquet #birth #bread #control #diminish

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator. ↗

— Rand Paul

#first #floor #government #handicapped #him

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care. ↗

— Ron Paul

#before #care #early #government #had

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#give me #hand #me #rather #ready

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#business #gears #humanity #i #i think

Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#having #hour #nice #paid #pay