Pastoral Resources

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.