Majority rule only works if youre also considering individual rights. Because you cant have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. – Larry Flynt
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. – Confucius
As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job. – Lucy Powell
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled. – Jean de La Bruyère, Characters, 1688
[I]t seems as if pain were the prayer of the nerve for healthy blood. – Moritz Heinrich Romberg, A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man, 1840, translat
Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone. – Andrew Shue