"If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve."

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Source : Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.59, Broadview Press

Randal Marlin

#War Quotes #Eclipse Quotes #Policy Quotes

“The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt like they were singing at you - you felt Sinatra was singing to you. It's a very intimate art form, and that's what I responded to - the intimacy of his performance.”
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.”
“Sven Schumann did an interview with photographer Wolfgang Tillmans in Berlin addressing the question: What is photography today when everyone is a photographer? These kinds of questions and answers you find in a magazine, on paper and not on Instagram. For me this is the essence of a magazine - it's questioning what's going on today and celebrating true creativity without compromise.”
“It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.”
“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
“You fight and fight. Get every ball back, run every ball down and never, ever doubt.”
“The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.”

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