"The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our job for a boss who has usurped power and is acting as an outlaw government. It is the courage at last to face honestly the truth and reality of what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it."

-- Daniel Ellsberg

#Jobs Quotes #War Quotes #Lying Quotes

“I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.”
“How could you know what it feels like to fight the hounds of hell?”

Source : Song: I Blame Myself, Album: Night Time, My Time, 2013
“Friendship is the holiest of gifts; God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us! It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain. Everyone can have a friend, Who himself knows how to be a friend.”
“Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.”
“I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that we have to make among ourselves in order to force the government to do differently. Things do not start with governments.”
“Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.”
“Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.”

Source : Stasi Eldredge (2013). “Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You”, p.108, David C Cook
“I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.”

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