#thro

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#commence #confidence #cowardice #disarm #distrust

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#interested #not interested #overthrow #preserving #quo

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#aspect #being #beings #bound #chain

I am kind of the guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town. ↗

— Rick Majerus

#driving #expect #guy #i #i am

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work. ↗

— Lee Majors

#body #i #put #through #tremendous

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education. ↗

— Malcolm X

#education #good #legislate #through #will

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going. ↗

— Jena Malone

#equally #every #going #graduate #life

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#ball #by the time #each #field #games

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#creative #creator #exist #history #impulse

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#afford #any #between #communication #conflict