"War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!"

-- Heinrich von Treitschke

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Wish Quotes

“When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.”
“Pregnancy takes a huge physical toll on your body. I have many friends who have had babies and many of them require medical help and attention, emergency Cesarean sections and forceps. If you think that people just have a kid and it's no big deal, that's not true. It's one of the most dangerous things for a woman to do. If you take away access to accessible medical women in America, you're going to bump up the death rate.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“As humans we speak one language...”

Source : "Avril Lavigne Fires Back Over Claims She Ripped Off 70s Song", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.
“I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.”
“I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.”
“Krishna is present fully in His holy name and this is realized by the humility and sincerity in our chanting.”
“Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.”
“It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

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