"The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a Faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is disapproved of not only intellectually but also morally. There cannot be any excuse for it once the Message has been revealed."

-- Joseph A. Schumpeter

#Religious Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Errors Quotes

“You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!”
“You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.”

Source : Philip Caputo (1977). “A rumor of war”, Henry Holt & Co
“History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition, target only victims they believe they can overpower. When the intended victim draws a gun, the predator realizes that their erstwhile target has the ability to kill them instantly. This tends to modify their behavior immediately without a shot being fired.”
“We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us.”
“Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.”
“I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.”
“Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.”
“I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.”

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