"Without war no State could be. All those we know of arose through war, and the protection of their members by armed force remains their primary and essential task. War, therefore, will endure to the end of history, as long as there is a multiplicity of states."

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Source : Heinrich von Treitschke (1916). “Politics”

Heinrich von Treitschke

#War Quotes #Long Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.”
“Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it. If there is a way of grasping a reality in absolute rather than relative terms, of entering into it rather than taking up positions on it, of seizing hold of it without any translation or symbolism, then that way is metaphysics itself.”

Source : "Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986: Flowers in the desert". Book by Britta Benke, January 27, 1995.
“No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.”
“I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.”
“People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.”
“The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.”
“Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.”

Source : Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.143, Feminist Press at CUNY
“I'm attacking the basket more. Because I'm more comfortable on the line, that's an area I want to get to.”

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