"Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA."

-- Martin McGuinness

#Support Quotes #Ira Quotes #Rifles Quotes

“I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.”
“The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance.”

Source : Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.41, University of Chicago Press
“I love modeling but also see it as a platform for the million other things I want to achieve and create in life.”
“In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.”
“Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.”
“For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.”

Source : "Dreaming of War". "The Nation", October 15, 2001.
“That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.”
“This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.”

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