"There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong."

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Source : Ruth Ozeki (2013). “My Year of Meats”, p.236, Canongate Books

Ruth Ozeki

#Life Quotes #Answers Quotes

“The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.”

Source : BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”
“Anybody can kill anybody.”
“Demons lie behind much of the world's pagan worship systems.”
“Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.”
“We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.”
“The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.”

Source : Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.25
“Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.”
“You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.”

Source : "Choice is rarely black and white" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2010.

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