"Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys."

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Source : 1987 Moon Tiger, ch.8.

Penelope Lively

#Children Quotes #War Quotes #Boys Quotes

“It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.”

Source : Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.35, IHS Press
“My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.”
“For German Social Democracy, Europe is vital to the national interest.”
“I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.”
“Hard to feel confident when youâ€™re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. Emmett Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.745”
“The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.”

Source : "Want to be happy? Slow down". Interview with Guy Raz, ideas.ted.com. January 23, 2015.
“[Larry Kramer] even wrote this angry letter to the president of Yale, and in it he said what he said to us, that he was so disappointed in his straight friends because of AIDS and everything. He wrote the letter around March. And in it he wrote, "I usually go to the Trillins for Christmas, but I just couldn't do it this year."”
“So I make no effort to hide my pain. I donâ€™t ever put it all on display like thisâ€”but for today and all the rest of the days of the trial, I must. My every flinch, every flicker of pain, will be magnified a hundred times over, then dissected by the pundits and talking heads. But Iâ€™m told itâ€™s necessary; the world needs to see me vulnerable and wounded. I cannot appear not to care or to lack remorse, but that removes a crucial component of my self- defense mechanism and leaves me bleeding for all the world to see. I suppose thatâ€™s rather the point.”

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