"Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it."

-- Haile Selassie

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Men Quotes

“All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”
“This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real war that is going on here. And that is the war we've got to talk about.”
“I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.”
“I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.”
“When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.”
“It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.”
“When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you.”
“Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.”

Source : Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”

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