"I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war and war."

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Source : Interview with Selcuk Gultasli for "Today's Zaman" (Turkey), www.thehypertexts.com. January 19, 2009.

Norman Finkelstein

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Israel Quotes

“There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.”
“Your life only gets better when you get better.”
“If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.”
“I can't be sure God does not exist... On a scale of seven, where one means I know he exists, and seven I know he doesn't, I call myself a six... That doesn't mean I'm absolutely confident, that I absolutely know, because I don't.”
“Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.”

Source : Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]
“For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.”
“I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm sitting here right now speaking English.”
“If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.”

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