"There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force"

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Source : "John Keegan: Soldiers and Pacifists Share the Same Qualities" by Russ Wellen, fpif.org. February 13, 2013.

John Keegan

#People Quotes #Wicked Quotes #World Quotes

“I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.”

Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.64, Anchor
“The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.”
“I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!”
“The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity to one of them can operate without extending its influence to the others. All these interests are alike under the protecting power of the legislative authority, and the duties of the representative bodies are to conciliate them in harmony together.”
“It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.”
“I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.”
“Itâ€™s the little things that make us who we are in the bigger world.”
“He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow.”

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