"We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war."

-- John Yoo

#War Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Abu Ghraib Quotes

“It is amazing that our souls - our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world - are contained within these temporal bodies. No wonder suffering is part of the human condition....”
“I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict, and character development, which I find vital to my storytelling.”
“In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.”
“There is a proverb that says, â€˜Talk so that I may know who you are.â€™ But I say, â€˜Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.”

Source : Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi”, p.176, Zed Books Ltd.
“For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many”
“Only your mind can produce fear.”
“Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.”
“Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?”

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