"Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind."

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Source : Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.76, Princeton University Press

Carl von Clausewitz

#Passion Quotes #Mind Quotes #Savages Quotes

“I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.”
“Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that sheâ€™s â€˜damaged goodsâ€™, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom â€˜do you still love me?â€™ you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.”
“The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe”

Source : Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings (2003). “Selected Writings: 1938-1940”, p.184, Harvard University Press
“Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.”
“Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can discern these unspoken beliefs and articulate them.”
“What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.”
“Atheism is the absence of religion. We donâ€™t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.”
“The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.”

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