"I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us."

-- Jean le Rond d'Alembert

#Vexation Quotes #Insult Quotes #Worn Quotes

“The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war. The greatest hero is the one who kills the most people. Glamorous exploits in successful lying and mass stealing and heroic vengeance are rewarded with decorations and public acclaim.”

Source : John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”
“Christ is Everything. He is joy, He is life, He is light. He is the true light who makes man joyful, makes him soar with happiness; makes him see everything, everybody; makes him feel for everyone, to want everyone with him, everyone with Christ.”
“Oh, the boots were on the other eight feet now.”
“Nothing truly wild is unclean.”
“An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.”
“I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.”
“In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.”

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