Famous quotes containing the words pursuit, commonwealth and/or games:
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)