"The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made."

-- Aristide Briand

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“America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.”

Source : "Anthropology and Politics". Book by Ernest Gellner, 1995.
“I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper.”

Source : "Doseone" by Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.
“As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics the model of all neo-positivistic thinking lies in just this 'intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced.”

Source : "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 24-25), 1947.
“The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.”
“It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.”
“I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 22, 2003.
“I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs.”

Source : "Newdow: We will challenge Pledge again". Interview with Heidi Collins, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2004.
“It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.”

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