"An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims."

-- Georgie Anne Geyer

#War Quotes #Power Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.”
“If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.”
“I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.”
“Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.”

Source : Sarah Hall (2010). “The Electric Michelangelo”, p.84, Faber & Faber
“The true philosophy, known and practiced by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.”

Source : "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry".
“Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured.”

Source : Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row
“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”
“Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.”

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