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)

“How did it die?
I called it EVIL.
I said to it, your poems stink like vomit.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“A rat eats, then leaves its droppings.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 85, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)