"War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it."

-- B. H. Liddell Hart

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Evil Quotes

“Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?”
“Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experienceâ€¦it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.”
“It's almost like we have ESPN.”
“Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.”
“It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.”

Source : "Wilson wants leak culprit 'frog-marched'", www.cnn.com. October 6, 2003.
“Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.”
“There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.”
“The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.”

Source : Richard Carlson (2006). “You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective”, p.13, New World Library

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