Notable Quotable 110

Sep 21, 2023

Until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and disfigured, to begin all over again after that.

- Anne Frank

If you ever feel useless … just remember that it took the USA four presidents, thousands of lives, trillions of dollars and 20 years to … replace Taliban with Taliban.

- John Wright

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.

- Gustave Le Bon

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

- George Carlin

There is but one truth, one set of facts, one reality. Honest people may differ in their perception or interpretation of it while ruthless, dishonorable people, media, or governments twist, conceal, deny or lie about it to further their own greed and corruption.

- Bob Davies

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Honesty in the social context means not twisting reason, - harmonizing with others, and being unselfish and fair.

- Sun Tzu

The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater's killings of Iraqi civilians.

- Shashi Tharoor

In general, those who resort to mass murder on a collective scale always put forward the justification that they acted on behalf of the nation.

- TanerAkçam

Fools disregard their lives for the sake of desires. Even though they trouble themselves mentally and physically by their cravings, they are never satisfied, and yet they never give up.

- Sun Tzu

War is the most profitable business on earth.

- Kenneth Eade, Beyond All Recognition