"During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places."

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Source : "Blair has made Britain a target". www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2001.

John Pilger

#War Quotes #America Quotes #People Quotes

“The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.”
“I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.”
“In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.”
“On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. An eccentric puts ice cream on steak simply because he likes it; should a crank do so, he would endow the act with moral grandeur and straightaway denounce as sinners (or reactionaries) all who failed to follow suit.... Cranks, at their most familiar, are a sort of peevish prophets, and it's not enough that they should be in the right; others must also be in the wrong.”

Source : "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.”
“High schoolâ€™s actually kind of boring. Itâ€™s a little bit like living in the Center. Everyone thinks they know everything about everyone else, but really thereâ€™s a lot more under the surface. (Lend)”
“History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.”
“If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises. If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don't have to run away. You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.”

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