"Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies."

-- Ray Kurzweil

#Enemy Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Politics Quotes

“I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.”
“Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.”
“Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing).”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult
“We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.”
“With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.”

Source : Guy Debord (1998). “Comments on the Society of the Spectacle”, p.16, Verso
“One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!”
“We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.”
“Sorry for hurting you, she said right in my ear, but it wasn't really an apology, because you don't bite someone's earlobe to tell them you're sorry.”

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