"What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right."

-- Abraham Verghese

#Country Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Godly Quotes

“I've been a barbarian my whole life. I'm just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?”
“You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.”

Source : "Transmetropolitan. God Riding Shotgun (issue #6)". Comic book by Warren Ellis,
“Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction”

Source : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.263, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
“... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little to discourage this trend.... Rand had often protested, 'Protect me from my followers!'”
“I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.”

Source : "François Hollande annouces €10bn cut in public spending" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. September 09, 2012.
“[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.”
“If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.”

Source : "Black Belt: Judo Skills and Techniques". Book by Neil Ohlenkamp, p. 36, 2006.

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