"The more comfort, the less courage there is."

-- Alexander Suvorov

#War Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.”
“All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.”
“But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.”
“Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it.”
“I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us that faith is a virtue, that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence, that you believe because you believe. Once you buy into that, then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'”
“He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.”
“Being an artist is a lifestyle.”
“I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.”

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