"The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How is a national leader to explain the sacrifice of so much for nothing?"

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Source : Thomas Powers (1982). “Thinking about the next war”, Alfred A. Knopf

Thomas Powers

#War Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness”
“Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.”
“I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one's love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul. I know that what you call "God" actually exists, but in a different way from what you think: as the primal cosmic energy in the universe, as your love in your body, as your honesty and your feeling of nature in you and around you.”

Source : Wilhelm Reich (1948). “Listen, Little Man!: A Document from the Archives of the Orgone Institute”
“One of the things I give Nancy Pelosi a lot of credit for is that she's able to get things passed and hold her members together because she shows us that she's doing everything possible to get our views into these bills.”
“That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love”

Source : "New again: Laura Dern". Interview with Gary Indiana, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 10, 2016.
“Whatever I'm working on, I get excited. It does not matter whether I have done the same piece many times. I still can't wait to get out to the shop in the morning.”
“I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.”
“Happy wife, happy life.”

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