Autonomous Stink Rat

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

“Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)

“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)

“Everybody gets pinched but you did it right. You told them nothing and they got nothing. You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.”
—Nicholas Pileggi, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Jimmy Conway (Robert DeNiro)