"In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?"

-- Maxim Gorky

#Children Quotes #War Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.”
“E-mail creates the illusion that you're writing. You're not.”
“Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In a society that values progress, our colonizers taught us that conditions in the world are perpetually improving, that with each new technological advancement, each new discovery, each new way to utilize resources, each new way to alter the environment, that the world is getting better, that it is advancing. These are all lies.”
“Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.”
“Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.”
“The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for the memories of where we were and who we were when we were reading them; to remember a book is to remember the child who read that book.”
“The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.”
“Our problems are God's opportunities.”

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