"I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human."

-- Hugo Grotius

#Christian Quotes #War Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.”

Source : Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”
“They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.”
“Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? "Â ”
“Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.”
“For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.”

Source : Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism”
“Judging people does not help them.”
“A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.”
“It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make”

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