"Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings collapse overhead and burst into flames, and dead bodies hurtle about and, when it is over for the day or the night, emerge in the rubble to find some of their dear ones mangled, their homes gone, their hospitals, churches, schools demolished - only after that gruesome experience will we realize what we are inflicting on the people of Indochina."

-- William L. Shirer

#New York Quotes #War Quotes #School Quotes

“beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.”

Source : Wilbur Smith (2008). “The Leopard Hunts in Darkness”, p.30, Pan Macmillan
“Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.”

Source : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)
“Vote to stand tall against terrorists ; receive Social Security privatization . Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes , in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining.”
“Bill Clinton was doing Ku Klux Klan grand kleagel jokes at Byrd's funeral, saying, Oh, Robert C. Byrd, he used the - he was the grand kleagel. He just did what he had to do.”
“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.”

Source : George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.10, Prometheus Books
“I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't like I'm not the cool thing and I sell 3,000,000 records every time. I'm not the cool thing, and I barely sell 150,000 records, if that, ever. So I'm obviously working really hard to sustain myself. I'm actually a target to be dropped, because that's just not enough records for a big company.”
“You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.”
“After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.”

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