Quote by Thomas King

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

— Terry Eagleton

“Sentiment and brutality, never one without the other, like fossils and oil.”

— Saul Bellow

“As Marguerite Derrida puts it: ‘I’ve always thought that it was mainly through his capacity for listening that Jacques could seduce women.”

— Benoît Peeters

“In politics, where everything romantic and sentimental is folly, the converse is usually considered true, and every brutality is thought sound sense”

— William Bolitho

“(Note: Extreme sensibility of the French sometimes makes them difficult to deal with.)”

— E.M. Delafield

“I love the idea that an abuse can be negated. And that the things most often disabused are notions.”

— David Levithan

“Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness.”

— David Hume

“We do not choose our destinies.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Are you a politician? I hate politicians, he said. And, in any case, there's no such thing anymore: only sycophants and dissidents.”

— Daniel Alarcon

“I’d prefer a world with no identity politics. I’d prefer we judged people according to reason, logic and evidence instead of barmy left-wing theories…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

“Love of the written word. Nurture yet disseminate. ‪Accept and respect‬ people with a different viewpoint. Laugh if you must but spare the flint!”

— Deeba Salim Irfan

“How nearly can what we most despise and hate, approach in outward manner to that which we most venerate!”

— Walter Scott