"I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside â€¦ but I will never ever again come back."

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Source : Interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television, April 29, 2004.

Kamisese Mara

#Thinking Quotes #Bloodshed Quotes #Said Quotes

“Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell? Or take your bodies honorless to Hell? In Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries”

Source : John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”
“When youâ€™re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story youâ€™re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.”
“Do what you like and do it honestly.”
“You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life.”
“The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -”
“Irrationality is the square root of all evil”

Source : "Irrationality is the Square Root of All Evil". Scientific American, 249 (3), September 1983.
“See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.”
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... In fact, violence merely increases hate. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.”

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