"War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be."

-- Nellie L. McClung

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary that ultimately is paid by a generation of young people going deeply into debt for their education.”
“Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.”
“The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God.”
“This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of constitutionality and integrity.”
“I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.”
“A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.”
“The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.”

Source : Maureen Duffy (1969). “Wounds”
“If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another”

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