Draining Quotes
More Draining Quotes
There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
Adam Smith— 1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.5, ch.2.
There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
Adam Smith— Chapter II, Part II, Appendix to Articles I and II
I was deeply grieved and suddenly depleted by a draining weariness. This day had been a nightmare, and I had not yet been asleep.
john ashcroft— p. 12 (Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006))
The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.
Allan Bloom— “Commerce and Culture,” p. 280
In short, the root-head turns the crab into a Darwinian cipher, a feeding machine working entirely in the parasite's service. The castrated crab can make no contribution to its own evolutionary history; its "Darwinian fitness" has become flat zero. ...But ever so carefully, for the parasite must maintain the crab in constant and perfect servitude - not draining the host enough to kill this golden goose, but not letting the crab do anything for its own Darwinian benefit.
stephen jay gould— Triumph of the Root-Heads, p. 369
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
Margaret Mead— Attributed to M. Mead in: Hugh Nash, Friends of the Earth (1981) Progress as if survival mattered: a handbook for a conserver society. p.166
Being really poor is frightening, and draining, but I got through it.
rob payne— Chapter 17, p. 141
Being really poor is frightening, and draining, but I got through it.
— Chapter 17, p. 141 (Working Class Zero (2003))
