"War hath no fury like a non-combatant."

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Source : Disenchantment (1922) ch. 16

Charles Edward Montague

#War Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Fury Quotes

“To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.”
“We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!”
“Since zombies are not fully dead, they upset the essential balance of nature: no animals eat zombies, apparently, and zombies do not seem to decay, at least, not to the point of disintegration and reintegration back into the soil, so the food chain, or the circle of life, seems to end or be short-circuited by their existence. Zombies fulfill the worst potentialities of humans to create a hellish kingdom on earth of endless, sterile repetition and boredom.”

Source : Kim Paffenroth (2006). “Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth”, p.13, Baylor University Press
“No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.”
“I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.”
“The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.”
“And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by accident she saved me with that thoughtless act of grace, and she never knew, and how that, too, is the part of the history of love.”
“It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.”

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