#ow

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#contemporary #defeat #form #greatest #identity

The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#drowned #false #flood #indictments #truth

We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#america #being #busy #country #know

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

#even #falsehood #find #follow #grain

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. ↗

— John Milton

#bright #centre #clear #dark #day

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. ↗

— John Milton

#brag #courts #feasts #high #may

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. ↗

— John Milton

#heal #his #otherwise #own #revenge

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself. ↗

— John Milton

#himself #shallow

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk. ↗