Quotes
Quotes about War
The awareness of their individual blemishes and shortcomings inclines the frustrated to detect ill will and meanness in their fellow men. Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.
Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.
Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self. Self-contempt is here transmuted into hatred of others- and there is a most determined and persistent effort to mask this switch.
Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.
Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably be used by the pragmatic man in the street.
'I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against uncivilised tribes.' ********** Winston Churchill, Secretary of State, British War Office, 1919, authorising use of chemical weapons against Iraqis.. in the first of 6 invasions of Iraq by agents of Anglo Iranian Oil (British Petroleum) in the last 100 years.
I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye From thee takes timely warning. Nor trusts the gorgeous sky. - John Keble,
A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning; But a rainbow at night Is the Shepherd's delight.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal. [Ger., Zwar sind sie an das Beste nicht gewohnt, Allein sie haben schrecklich viel gelesen.]
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. â¢Hermann Hesse Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. â¢Harriet Lerner Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. â¢Anthony J D'Angelo Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. â¢Richard M DeVos Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him. â¢Sidney Malwed Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. â¢Albert Schweitzer The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one. â¢Joan Baez For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. â¢Warren Beatty The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smellsâand he smelled real nice. â¢Sandra Bullock My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons. â¢Lord Byron In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. â¢Angela Carter I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. It wouldn't be right to make it look too easy. â¢Helen Hunt If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. â¢Octavio Paz The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. â¢Alexandria Penney It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting. â¢Todd Ruthman When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring. â¢Bob Seger If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times. â¢Montel Williams Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
