"The fact that we don't' talk about it, that we don't have a politics in which this question of war and peace can even get onto the table, so that we can open up our Orwell, our 1984, or Animal Farm, or whatever, and read the political text that's being spotted to us on the television right off of the page; the fact that we don't have a politics robust enough to actually debate whether or not we want to be a country permanently at war. That's what keeps me from sleeping at night."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Glenn Loury

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all”
“Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.”

Source : "A Glastonbury Romance". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 849, March 6, 1932.
“I plead with you to have the courage to refrain from judging and criticizing those around you, as well as the courage to make certain that everyone is included and feels loved and valued.”
“There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent, between a strong conviction that we must go to war and an abundant compassion for any that may die as a result, and between political conservatism and personal decency.”
“Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1830). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.53
“The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.”
“Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.”
“It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.”

Source : The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.22, Penguin

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