#zen

Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana. ↗

— Conrad Burns

#deliver #frivolous #frivolous lawsuits #goods #just

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attendant #clubs #dozen #enemy #energetic

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#caring #citizen #deeper #destined #each

Every citizen is king under a citizen king. ↗

— Charles Simon Favart

#every #king #under

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#armed forces #because #capable #chance #citizenship

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. ↗

— Albert Camus

#cannot #citizens #directly #goods #immoral

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#i #most #my time #spend #texas

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all? ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#hundred #things #try #ways #why

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation. ↗

— Gene Clark

#just #per #realisation #religion #zen

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#am #american #american dream #citizen #dream