"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."

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Voltaire

#Enemy Quotes #Patriotism Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“As an actor, doing it for 30 years, with every movie, you're trying to figure out a way to make it more naturalistic and more organic to humanity. When you have lines like, "Never let the monster out," it's hard.”

Source : "Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller Talk SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 19, 2014.
“The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well. In a Tarantino war, everyone commits atrocities. Like all the director's work after 'Jackie Brown,' the movie is pure sensation. It's disconnected from feeling, and an eerie blankness--it's too shallow to be called nihilism--undermines even the best scenes.”

Source : David Denby (2013). “Do the Movies Have a Future?”, p.252, Simon and Schuster
“Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.”
“What is needed for happy effectual service is simply to put your work into the Lord's hand, and leave it there. Do not take it to Him in prayer, saying, "Lord, guide me, Lord, give me wisdom, Lord, arrange for me," and then arise from your knees, and take the burden all back, and try to guide and arrange for yourself. Leave it with the Lord, and remember that what you trust to Him you must not worry over nor feel anxious about. Trust and worry cannot go together.”
“You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive.”

Source : Source: www.mantlethought.org
“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we canâ€™t appreciate what we have”
“The way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead of unpopular and they don't like to be the nail that sticks up, as they say.”

Source : Source: articles.chicagotribune.com
“There are tons of amazing women out there for girls to emulate but the media isn't celebrating them to the masses.”

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