61 Quotes by Agona Apell

It used to be that a man could keep out of trouble if he behaved himself. Now he will only keep out of trouble if he behaves himself, the police behave themselves, and court behaves itself.

I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.

The age of exploration has now moved to outer space, and so have its hobgoblins. The sailor in the heavens, like the mariner of old, is harried by the spectre of sailing into a falls — not a water falls at the edge of the earth but a space falls nested in his course as a black hole.

While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men from rot to rock

The quality of a man is to be judged not by what he drives but by what drives him

Busy mouths grow on idle heads

The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate