"Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatredâ€”other men. Man hates nothing as much as himself. That is why war is called the leprosy of the human soul."

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Source : Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

HalldÃ³r Laxness

#Hate Quotes #War Quotes #Men Quotes

“Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.”
“Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been different, we could have spared ourselves all kinds of suffering. More recently it's been turned into a comedic trope. As we go forward, tragedy plus time equals comedy...”

Source : "Back to the Führer: This Guy Studies Baby Hitler Time Machine Scenarios". Interview with Dave Glison, www.motherjones.com. October 23, 2015.
“One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing theyâ€™re doing as something thatâ€™s going to be the whole world.”
“Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, 'He couldn't carry it.' They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The call to make that decision is not mine, because obviously I won't resign and I'm not a quitter.”

Source : "Tottenham sack Andre Villas-Boas after 5-0 home defeat by Liverpool" by Rob Burnett, www.mirror.co.uk. December 16, 2013.
“Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be eliminated.”

Source : "World Affairs in Foreign Films: Getting the Global Picture". Book by Roberta Seret, p. 122, 2011.
“We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.”
“There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.”

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