"Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims."

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Source : "The Rights of Free Men: An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties". Book by Alan Barth, 1984.

Alan Barth

#Country Quotes #Hero Quotes #Character Quotes

“God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.”
“An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.”

Source : "Our Cosmic Patch". Interview with Helen Matsos, www.astrobio.net. January 3, 2005.
“All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.”
“It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.”
“It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.”
“I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.”
“Painting is a state of being.”
“My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.”

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