#lon

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#been #begin #casualty #first #lie

The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#boycott #effective #even #first #go

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#away #dares #few #heart #human

We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf. ↗

— Lalla Ward

#bit #days #during #five #french

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of "getting along." ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#any #build #create #different #different way

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#against #ancestors #because #becomes #boots

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#charles #complication #consciousness #created #darwin

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#books #conceive #down #galileo #god

And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission? ↗

— John Spratt

#direction #emerged #era #every #finally

There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#depth #how #i #know #longevity