"I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)"

-- Adolf Hitler

#War Quotes #Demand Quotes #Munich Quotes

“Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.”
“Faith is believing that the things you cannot see are more real than the things you can see.”
“Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.”
“In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.”

Source : "The tyranny of the minority" by Peter Fenn, www.politico.com. March 19, 2009.
“I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.”
“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isnâ€™t very interesting.”
“I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.”
“The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.”

Source : FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Jan 16, 2017

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