"the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace."

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Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

Vida Dutton Scudder

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Suppression Quotes

“I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I can't trust my computer, though I couldn't do without it. Books are matter. My books matter. What would I have done through these years without the library and all its lovely books?”
“Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.”
“Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.”
“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
“Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.”
“You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.”
“The bad news is that Iran wants to talk about everything except their nuclear program. They want to talk about regional cooperation, they want to talk about the sanctions issues, and it seems like the western powers want to talk about nothing more than the nuclear issue.”
“Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.”

Source : Common Misquotations introduction (1934)

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