“Today we are sacks of shit bundled into flying tubes with a security warning secreted inside every orifice.”

Source: City of Bones

Overqualified

J 70
Variant translation: The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook J (1789)

1943, quoted in "World War II Almanac, 1931-1945: A Political and Military Record" - Page 293 by Robert Goralski - History - 1981.

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

"Legacy"
2010s, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013)

Song Flying in the Night
Song lyrics

Address on religious factions (1981)
Context: I must make it clear that I don't condemn these groups for what they believe. I happen to share many of the values emphasized by these organizations.
I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C" and "D." Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism." … This unrelenting obsession with a particular goal destroys the perspective of many decent people. They have become easy prey to manipulation and misjudgment.