"The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape."

-- Martin Van Creveld

#Strong Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Opponents Quotes

“I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.”

Source : 'Pathology of Colours' (1968)
“Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."”
“You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.”

Source : "How Food Politics Can Affect Your Election Choices" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2011.
“Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”
“Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.”
“That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.”

Source : Annie Fellows Johnston (1912). “Mary Ware's Promised Land”, p.133, Pelican Publishing
“I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is something that I cannot speak adequately to.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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