(5 quotes found)
“Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.", "...freedom is difficult to understand because it isn't a '(ital) presence' but an '(ital) absence'�an absence of governmental constraint. People who are unfamiliar with severe political constraints�severe enough to make them aware that they have lost their freedom�often don't know what freedom is and on what it depends.”
William E. Simon
“Wealth is the pocket you take ephemeral from to by the ephemeral.”
Mariana Fulger
“Money gives ephemeral and false human value. If we would give up them, human world would be, a part of it, a room with empty glasses and bottles after a spree.”
“I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.”
P. J. O'Rourke
