"When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything."

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Source : Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

Cindy Sheehan

#Growing Up Quotes #War Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street.”
“I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.”
“Happy people look young. Youâ€™re really afraid of getting older, arenâ€™t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.”
“Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?”
“You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it.”
“Iâ€™ve always thought that each person invented himselfâ€¦ that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.”
“If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.”
“Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."”

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