“Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity”
Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis
Source: Hearts in Atlantis
Letter to Richard Congrieve (24 November 1866), quoted in Maurice Cowling, 1867: Disraeli, Gladstone and Revolution. The Passing of the second Reform Bill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967), p. 25.
1860s
“Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity”
Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis
Source: Hearts in Atlantis
Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850) French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly
That which is seen and that which is not seen (Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas, 1850), the Introduction.
Context: In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause — it is seen. The others unfold in succession — they are not seen: it is well for us, if they are foreseen. Between a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole difference: the one takes account only of the visible effect; the other takes account of both the effects which are seen and those which it is necessary to foresee. Now this difference is enormous, for it almost always happens that when the immediate consequence is favourable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse. Hence it follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good, which will be followed by a great evil to come, while the true economist pursues a great good to come, at the risk of a small present evil.
Zakir Hussain (politician) (1897–1969) 3rd President of India
Source: Philosophy of Education, p. 83.
James M. McPherson (1936) American historian
1990s, An Exchange With a Civil War Historian (June 1995)
“Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit”
Buster Keaton (1895–1966) American actor and filmmaker
Interview in Motion Picture (October 1921) "Six Interviews with Buster Keaton" http://www.silentera.com/taylorology/issues/Taylor68.txt
Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher
Helpless Individuals (March 2009) http://lesswrong.com/lw/64/helpless_individuals/