"Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty."

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Source : "Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas". Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1900.

Baron d'Holbach

#Selfish Quotes #War Quotes #Blood Quotes

“In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments.”

Source : "Belgium King Albert II Christmas Speech Sparks Controversy". www.bbc.com. December 27, 2012.
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
“Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.”
“Don't look back! For a bright future is ahead of you.”
“I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.”
“Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?”
“If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.”
“You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of small things all joined together.' That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.”

Source : Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2006). “Dragonlance Chronicles”

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