Doe Quotes - Page 360

There's something about us using the word fascism and thinking about, "What is it? What does it mean, and what are the tenets of it?".

I'm probably the only person over 40 who does not want to be 22 again.

The notion that the UN is some sort of dispassionate body that, “does right” and just pursues everybody’s best interests is a fantasy. Each individual nation will be pursuing their best interests. That’s the normal behavior of nation-states. It shouldn’t surprise us, but neither should we go to them for permission to do what’s in our national interests.

America does not seek good for Islam, for the Muslims, and for the repressed.

My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us and we will win.

Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.

The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.

I don't think there's any equivalency between the way that the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government

A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.

Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

The length of your days does not belong to you.

Being a King sort of sucks," I said. Quentin wrinkled his nose, "So does your outfit." "Blood is in this season.

If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is not available for people to spend. The deficit is an indirect method of taxation. Of course, politicians prefer to borrow instead of tax because then someone down the road has to deal with the consequences.

Most people hate that their mum has a Facebook page, but I love that my mum does.

Kissing is something that everybody does!

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.

The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.

To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.