"The self is every person's true enemy."

-- Ding Ling

#Self Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Persons Quotes

“...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out”
“Every time you take someone figuratively by the hand and introduce him or her to Jesus Christ, you will feel how deeply our Savior loves you and loves the person whose hand is in yours.”
“Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.”
“Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do.”
“The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.”
“What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.”
“There's definitely a fear of the enormity and the chaos of our world. Though many people are afraid, and we don't know what we're afraid of. We have reached an accommodation with life by finding rules and placing an order on the world and saying this is how it is.”
“And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddleâ€” And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.62, The Floating Press

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