"Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human."

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Source : Joe Haldeman (1998). “Forever Peace”, p.142, Penguin

Joe Haldeman

#War Quotes #Human Nature Quotes #Inevitable Quotes

“Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.”
“Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.”
“No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.”

Source : "Give Me Liberty". Book by Rose Wilder Lane, 1936.
“The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.”
“It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.”
“It's important to have masculine energy around your child.”
“There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.”
“We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy.”

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