#is

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody. ↗

— Leonora Carrington

#military #novelists #writing #military

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. ↗

— George Orwell

#propaganda #rewriting-history #understanding

They key of persistence opens all door closed by resistence ↗

— John Di Lemme

#key #persistence #power #struggle #persistence

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#opportunity #patriotism #united-states #usa #independence

Just because I wear black and keep a private journal, that doesn't mean I'm going to blow up the school. Or terrorize mindless cheerleaders, for that matter. ↗

— Kelly Creagh

#terrorism #terrorism

You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be. ↗

— Tony Kushner

#selfishness #violence

You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #birth

Waiting is a form of passive persistence. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#persistence #waiting #persistence

Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#artemis #artemis-fowl #fowl #goblin #stupid

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do (...) Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along? ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#illusions #music #psychology #music