"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars."

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Source : Quoted in James Charlton, The Military Quotation Book (1990)

Abbie Hoffman

#Peace Quotes #Military Quotes #War Quotes

“Most people do not know themselves. The real you is not that person you are when times are great, the real you shows when everything goes wrong. Can you hold on, can you keep pushing or do you quit?”
“I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.”
“The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal, using â€˜filiform protrusions through which it sucks the vital juices of its host.â€™ Parasite or creature in mutation on the shore, torrid / delirium: mordant mortality, systematic competition the narrator against the I, leaking gas, a lapse of memory against a promise, an inset in a book. A muscular, involuntary bulging in the breast, circling all its inner surface: mesoblast: visceral.”

Source : Nicole Brossard, Larry Shouldice, Patricia Claxton (2003). “The Blue Books: A Book, Turn of a Pang, French Kiss, Or, A Pang's Progress”, p.255, Coach House Books
“I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit.”
“It takes creativity at every stage to make the discontinuous leap from one level of knowledge to the next. These discontinuous leaps of understanding lead to insights that in turn lead to value creation.”

Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
“The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.”
“The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.”
“Dedication is loyalty to a cause, even when hope has long expired for a successful outcome. It is an unstoppable determination to win regardless of the odds.”

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