#la

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#eat #feeds #him #hoping #last

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace screamin’ in a nut house a long time ago. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #classic-quotes #divine-blessings #divinity #faith

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did. ↗

— Sally Field

#cut #dialogue #did #felt #i

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#another #become #damages #fair #injuries

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest. ↗

— John Keats

#ever #kisses #last #new #sweetest

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#claimed #everything #happens #right #war

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#build #day #destroy #laborious #may

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#energies #left #new #new world #old

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#correspondent #during #i #i remember #independence

We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing exists which has not been conceptualized. Not only do they care little for such a view, but their perspective is the very opposite: it is not conceptualizing reality, but realizing concepts and materializing ideas, that interests them. The ideas of the religion and enlightened morality of the eighteenth century certainly, but also dreams, scientific values, and sexual perversions. Materializing freedom, but also the unconscious. Our phantasies around space and fiction, but also our phantasies of sincerity and virtue, or our mad dreams of technicity. Everything that has been dreamt on this side of the Atlantic has a chance of being realized on the other. They build the real out of ideas. We transform the real into ideas, or into ideology. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#baudrillard #sociology #dreams