"What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power."

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Source : Sylvia Thompson (1926). “The Hounds of Spring”, Boston : Little, Brown

Sylvia Thompson

#Pride Quotes #Blood Quotes #Greed Quotes

“As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.”
“I could always make people laugh.”
“Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.”
“You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could goâ€¦ well, anywhere at all.”
“I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes.”
“Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don't be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across.”
“The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.”
“I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often I've had satisfaction there. When things go well in production, on opening there's no nicer feeling in the world-what could be nicer than watching an audience respond? You can't that from a book. It's a fine feeling to walk into the theater and see living people respond to something you've done.”

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