"Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war."

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Chris Hedges

#War Quotes #Perception Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.”
“This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.”

Source : John Newton (1808). “The works of the rev. John Newton”, p.572
“Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.”
“When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what's most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.”
“Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.”
“War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.”
“Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.”
“She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.”

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