Autonomous Stink Rat

Famous quotes containing the words autonomous, stink and/or rat:

    “There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets ours norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    “If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you’re caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout—not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you’ve never said before. What perhaps you don’t even know till now.”
    —Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)