"The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them."

-- Duke of Wellington

#History Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Earth Quotes

“The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.”
“When you first hear about this guy (Stan Musial), you say, 'it can't be true.' When you first meet him you say, 'It must be an act.' But as you watch him and watch him and see how he performs and how he comports himself you say, 'He's truly one of a kind.' There will never be another like him.”
“Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts”
“Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.”
“Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people who went on to become part of the Fascist experience: (1) shift power directly to economic and social interest groups; (2) push entrepreneurial initiative in areas normally reserved for public bodies; (3) obliterate the boundaries between public and private interest -- that is, challenge the idea of the public interest. This sounds like the official program of most contemporary Western governments.”

Source : John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.89, Simon and Schuster
“You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.”
“All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.”
“Leaving stage with a bloody scalp, it's rock & roll, I guess, but I want some hair at the end of the tour.”

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