"I believe that we [Americans] are making more new enemies than we are killing terrorists at this point, and I think it's time that we stepped back from this aggressive assertion that we can just go to any country and conduct lethal operations."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Jeremy Scahill

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.”
“All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.”

Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”
“To read without joy is stupid.”
“But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent.”
“I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.”
“All presidents - particularly war presidents, presidents inclined to the imperial presidency - invoke Abraham Lincoln as a justification, but they omit these three defenses of Lincoln's strong actions. Suspend habeas, blockade, increase army without congress, arrest Maryland legislators, etc.”
“When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.”
“I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.”

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