"We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance."

-- Tony Judt

#War Quotes #Order Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.”
“A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.”
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
“I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.”
“Maybe we're all cabinets of wonders.”
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Source : "A Cult of Ignorance". Newsweek, January 21, 1980.
“Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.”

Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.
“A fop sometimes gives important advice.”

Source : "The Art of Poetry (Canto IV)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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