"The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war."

-- African Spir

#War Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Cain Quotes

“It is easier to make war than to make peace.”
“Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.”
“The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually she surfaced near Japan and people gave her gifts but she had been so long under the sea she did not recognize what they were. She is a sly one. Mostly at night we commune. Night. Harbinger of dream and nightmare and bearer of omens which defy the music of words. In the morning the fear of her going is very real and very alarming. It can make one tremble. Not that she cares. She is the muse. I am the messenger.”
“Even if itâ€™s not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.”
“I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.”
“America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 11, 1989.
“I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?”
“Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?”

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