The Dude: Fuckin' Quintana... that creep can roll, man. Walter Sobchak: Yeah, but he's a pervert, Dude. The Dude: Yeah. Walter Sobchak: No, he's a sex offender. With a record. He served 6 months in Chino for exposing himself to an eight year old. The...
Maude Lebowski: Does the female form make you uncomfortable, Mr. Lebowski? The Dude: Uh, is that what this is a picture of? Maude Lebowski: In a sense, yes. My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself m...
Philip Marlowe: You the guy that's been tailing me? Harry Jones: Yeah, the name's Jones. Harry Jones. I want to see you. Philip Marlowe: Swell. Did you want to see those guys jump me? Harry Jones: I didn't care one way or the other. Philip Marlowe: Y...
for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.
Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [ ]
On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands.
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
For Madison, on the other hand, “a Public Debt is a Public curse,” and “in a Representative Government greater than in any other.”26
You're Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?" As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government?
Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.
the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.
Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.
...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.
The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.
Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.
The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burd...
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
