#sm

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#capitalism #nothing #peace #war

Isolationism is over. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#over

Our society's need for escapism has always interested me. ↗

— David Lloyd

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For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#establish #even #idealism #ideals #monopoly

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#get #ignore #making #most #poetry

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#ax #deserved #exactly #flatter #head

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#essentially #journalism #never #nor #profession

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#conservatism #conservative #i #kind #person

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing. ↗

— George MacDonald

#great things #small #small thing #thing #things

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture