“Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws — always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop. Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them for their own good.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)

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Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

“I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's just hanging off a staircase or something. There's too much of this, 'don't do that.”

Joe Strummer (1952–2002) British musician, singer, actor and songwriter

The whole thing baffles me.
My Dinner with Strummer (March 1999)

“We are always doing something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.”

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright

No. 587 (20 August 1714).
The Spectator (1711–1714)

““Didn’t you ever see a cat before?”
“Of course I did,” said the boy. “Hundreds of them. But just because you’ve seen something, it doesn’t mean you stop looking. There’s always something you didn’t see before.””

Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer

Source: Time Cat (1963), Chapter 10 “Odranoel” (pp. 100-101)

“I always come back to variations of the question that my son asked me when he was three. We were sitting in a jacuzzi, and he said, "Dad, why do we exist?" There is no other question. Nobody has any other question. We have variations of this one question, from three onwards. So when you spend time in a company, in a bureaucracy, in an organization and you're saying, boy -- how many people do you know who on their death beds said, boy, I wish I had spent more time at the office? So there's a whole thing of having the courage now -- not in a week, not in two months, not when you find out you have something -- to say, no, what am I doing this for? Stop everything. Let me do something else. And it will be okay, it will be much better than what you're doing, if you're stuck in a process.”

Ricardo Semler (1959) Brazilian businessman

TED: "How to run a company with (almost) no rules" https://www.ted.com/talks/ricardo_semler_how_to_run_a_company_with_almost_no_rules/ (October 2014)

“I have lobbyists. I have to tell you. I have lobbyists that can produce anything for me. They're great. But you know what? it won't happen. It won't happen. Because we have to stop doing things for some people, but for this country, it's destroying our country. We have to stop, and it has to stop now.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)

“Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

XI, 4
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XI

“We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go

“My Führer, I know, it is obvious from interrogations for one thing and from evidence I have from my particular field, that there are naturally differences among these unnatural Allies, but please do not be offended if I say that I do not believe the alliance will split up of itself without our own active intervention. Before that happens we shall be dead or beaten to the ground, and that must not happen — we must do something first.”

Karl Wolff (1900–1984) SS general

To Adolf Hitler. Quoted in "A Special Mission" - by Dan Kurzman - 2007 - Political Science - Page 233

“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

As quoted in Reporting (1964) by Lillian Ross
Source: A Moveable Feast

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