#din

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#conflicts #create #economic #harmonious #lasting

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#among #become #cannot #claim #disputes

From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#chinese #fourth #investment #korea #perspective

Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#believe #between #further #future #hope

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bloodshed #detail #exceed #hard #harder

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#generally #hack #i #like #lips

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#been #bull #cow #feeding #industry

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#also #benign #choice #condescending #countries

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#between #cold #europe #extraordinary #loneliness

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#i #i am #kind #other #people