"If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go."

-- Phil Ochs

#War Quotes #Blood Quotes #Politics Quotes

“The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people are prepared to sacrifice the last boy and the last girl so that the Palestinian flag will be flown over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem.”

Source : Yasser Arafat's speech at a party to celebrate the birth of his daughter (August 6, 1995), as quoted in "Haaretz", September 6, 1995, and in "The Jerusalem Post", September 7, 1995.
“If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.”
“We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.”
“Your mind was made to know and love God.”
“What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”
“I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid.”
“the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.13, Open Road Media
“In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.”

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