"Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it."

#Office Quotes #Politics Quotes

“after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.”
“Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.”

Source : Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
“Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.”
“My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.”
“No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.”
“Eliminate the Diaspora, or the Diaspora will surely eliminate you.”
“I'm instinctively a Conservative.”

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