"Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love."

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Christine Sneed

#Book Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.”
“But why should a religious person be interested in a work like Heidegger's that many regard as the epitome of nihilism? For a start, because Heidegger forces us in a way that few philosophers do to really think through the seriousness and all-encompassing nature of our mortality.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“I think in general the ends do not justify the means.”
“The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used the United Nations to force it to disarm, then invaded it, occupied it, and are now in the process of selling it.”
“I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.”
“The water bath has a platform which the rats learn to find because they don't like to get wet. Then you remove the platform. But you don't tell the rats.”
“In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.”
“Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.”

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