"To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public."

-- Noam Chomsky

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Office Quotes

“I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.”
“We must learn not to weep and to love what we have left.”
“Life at H.I.V.E. may have its attractions after all, Otto thought. Friends, as they say, may come and go, but high-powered laser weapons are forever.”

Source : Mark Walden (2011). “H.I.V.E. (Higher Institute of Villainous Education)”, p.22, A&C Black
“My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern for me, as for many people, but it's nowhere near as central to the culture as it used to be.”
“I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!”
“Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.”
“Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.”
“You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.”

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