"We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war."

-- Tony Benn

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“Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.”
“Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.”
“It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.”
“Youâ€™ve been here before. It wonâ€™t kill you. It feels like you canâ€™t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like youâ€™ll never stop crying, but you actually will.”
“Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.”
“Definitions.... are never really needed, and rarely of any use”
“It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.”

Source : "In Continuation of Pope on Newton" l. 1 (1926) See Pope 11
“Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.”

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