"Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank."

-- Linda Colley

#Reality Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Warfare Quotes

“courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity.”

Source : Elizabeth D. Samet (2007). “Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point”, p.214, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?”
“I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.”
“I was not in touch with reality. Growing up, I was being shielded without my knowing it, because even all the way up to the age of 15, I made these paper basketball men and played with them, like action figures.”
“More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.”
“Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.”
“My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.”
“Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.”

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