"Luxury destroys more efficiently than war."

-- Juvenal

#War Quotes #Luxury Quotes

“What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200 species a day. That's 73,000 a year. This culture is oblivious to their passing, feels entitled to their every last niche, and there is no roll call on the nightly news.”

Source : Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.20, Seven Stories Press
“Morale is a little bit dimmed, is a bit affected by the redundancy program. That program had been planned for quite some time, and when I took over it was really left to me to make the final decision and it clearly was the right thing to do for the business.”
“I knew that I was choosing the road less traveled but I'm not walking it alone.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 29, 2013
“America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn to it, the idea of it, the idea that you might be free of your past, free of the traditions that kept you in your own traditions - that is the idea of it: freedom from your very own self.”
“Love has its roots in sex, but its foliage and flowers are in the pure light of spirit.”
“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”
“There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.”
“Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.”

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