"Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising."

-- Gore Vidal

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Grief Quotes

“Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.”
“I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman.”
“And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?”
“As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.”
“A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.”
“If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.”
“So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.”

Source : George Saintsbury, Foreword By Mohit K. Ray (2004). “History Of English Criticism”, p.350, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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