"And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new."

-- Hannah Arendt

#Action Quotes #Destruction Quotes #Violent Quotes

“You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say "enough."”

Source : Source: www.neh.gov
“I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.”
“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”
“Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.”
“Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.”
“Do you remember the tsar? Well, Iâ€˜m like a tsar.”
“A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.”

Source : George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics
“You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.”

Source : "Will Trump's presidency finally kill the myth of the special relationship?" by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2017.

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