"Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly."

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Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Party Quotes

“Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.”

Source : Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”
“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word -religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. -Vincent Van Gogh A mistake is simply another way of doing things.”
“Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.”
“You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.”
“It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.”
“In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will.”
“All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.”
“Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.”

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