"Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality"

-- Gilles Deleuze

#Fiction Quotes #Levels Quotes #States Quotes

“Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.”
“What I'm trying to do is be as honest as I can, and I don't normally do that.”

Source : "GM Bruce Allen says Redskins have 'no gaping holes' going into this week's NFL draft", www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2014.
“Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units.”
“I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' That's how I got over being shy.”
“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.”

Source : Opening statement for the prosecution before International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, 21 Nov. 1945
“The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.”
“We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.”
“A troubled countenance oft discloses much.”

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