"Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat."

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Source : "Nobel Lectures in Peace" by Frederick W. Haberman, World Scientific, (p. 415), 1999.

John Boyd Orr

#Revenge Quotes #War Quotes #Lust Quotes

“Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.”

Source : Stephen Burt (2009). “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry”, Graywolf Press
“If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.”
“Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.”
“A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.”
“Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?”
“The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.”

Source : At the March on Washington, April 25, 1993.
“Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship.”
“It's government's job to respect and protect the rights of the individual. That vision is centrally important to the principle put forth by the Founding Fathers. If you don't believe that, you shouldn't be in Congress.”

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