"I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now."

-- Zoe Leonard

#War Quotes #Generations Quotes #Half Quotes

“When people say, 'Religion is all right for some, but I am not religious, and it means nothing to me,' is it because they have not experienced the uplift that comes from sacrificing for and serving their fellowmen?”
“Normal people do not create art.”
“If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.”
“The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness”
“I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.”
“How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight?”
“It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.”
“It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.”

Source : Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax (1848). “The works of ... Joseph Butler ... to which is prefixed: an account of the character and writings of the author”, p.196

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