#hea

People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#before #camera #cut #enemy #facing

We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#american people #back #battling #behead #children

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

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#able #attractions #bully #cheat #feeling

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#crafted #hear #i #immediacy #lot

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#am #anyone #care #cheapest #freedom

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#better #brain #cannot #did #had

You can shave my head if you need to; it doesn't bother me. ↗

— Peta Wilson

#head #me #need #shave #you

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#because #cool #delivered #finally #glass

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#band #either #else #figurehead #going