People Sniffing Petrol

Famous quotes containing the words people, sniffing and/or petrol:

“To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation’s sweetest dreams of itself.”
—Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)

“On her headstone you’ll find this refrain:
‘She died as she lived, sniffing cocaine.’”
—Unknown. Cocaine Lil (l. 27–28)

“What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)