"War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit."

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Source : "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.

Robert Fisk

#War Quotes #Victory Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.”
“If I’m as normal as I think I am, we’re all a bunch of weirdos.”
“Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.”
“We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.”
“Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 15, 2017
“By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.180
“To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.”
“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.”

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