"Russia has a long-term interest in Syria. Israel by and large does not have an issue with those long-term interests that Russia has in Syria. Israel has an issue with an Iranian regime that is trying to establish this land bridge, and that openly calls and actively works for Israel's destruction. And if you ask a hundred Israelis what they want to see in Syria, you're going to get 150 answers."

-- Ron Dermer

#Trying Quotes #Destruction Quotes #Interest Quotes

“A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.”

Source : Sam J. Ervin Jr. (2014). “Humor of a Country Lawyer”, p.38, UNC Press Books
“The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, disguised as morality, restrains in their more spontaneous forms. War has the same merit. You must not kill you neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism.”
“We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.”
“Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.”
“How it works is you have an organization that provides you with players, and our job, as weâ€™ve said all along, is just to coach â€™em up.”
“Life - life - let there be life!”

Source : William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”
“In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.”
“Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.”

Source : Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

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