#ares

The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#affairs #again #back #back up #because

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#anyone #backs #blame #deaths #each

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#dissolution #every #hated #institution #most

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#dickens #friends #greatest #many #mark

The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#graceful #series #sky #squares #steel

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#car #excited #get #go #hawk

I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child. ↗

— Carol Alt

#during #fat #getting #i #i think

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#declares #ii #necessary #salvation #vatican

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#complete #formation #ground #habit #indeed