"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living."

-- Omar N. Bradley

#War Quotes #Evil Quotes #World Quotes

“Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.”
“So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.”

Source : Erving Goffman (1981). “Forms of Talk”, p.1, University of Pennsylvania Press
“Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to misrepresent the nature of their work and build up a false notion of its importance. A further alienation from truth takes place, a further loss of contact with reality. And one thing we can be sure of is that self-deception, whether on the level of the wind and the rain or on that of spiritual reality, must always come up against the real sooner or later, and that its destruction is very painful.”
“Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.”

Source : Tad Williams (2002). “Otherland 4: Sea of Silver Light”, p.748, Penguin
“There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (1969). “Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition”
“I have a big heart and a small brain.”
“The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really saying something else. "Hey guys, come, I'll take you a football match." They all come - and you suddenly take them to watch theater play on the stage instead. In Istanbul Istanbul, I pretend to talk about torture and politics, but I don't actually. Instead I talk about hope and hopelessness, darkness and light, good and evil, love and separation.”
“We attach meaning to things, and things to meaning: endow them one way or another as if to prove to ourselves that we are who we are; this life really happened; we really have traveled this far in time and space.”

Source : "The Object Parade: Essays". Book by Dinah Lenney, 2014.

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