"We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington."

-- Richard Perle

#Europe Quotes #Paris Quotes #Government Quotes

“I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.”
“In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.”

Source : Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
“This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat.”

Source : "Reflections on China, 1962-1972" by Enver Hoxha, Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House, vol. I, 1979.
“Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.”
“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.”

Source : James S. A. Corey (2013). “Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse”, p.297, Hachette UK
“The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints.”
“Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.”
“But here's the ugly truth: nature doesn't care about democracy, or who's right, or what's fair. And because of the slow-change aspect of climate, we can't wait until the worst effects are upon us to make a decision -- by then, it would be far, far too late. The scenario we may be faced with is one where doing something for the wrong reasons, run by the wrong people, may still save more lives than holding out for a more appealing option.”

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