#stance

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#attendant #become #breathe #cast #circumstances

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#believe #best #choose #concerts #i

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ↗

— Carl Jung

#both #chemical #contact #like #meeting

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance. ↗

— Akhmad Kadyrov

#put #resistance #rule #strong #supposed

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#come #deeper #distance #even #exhilaration

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#bad guy #bomb #captured #case #choice

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#circumstances #exalt #historians #how #improve

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. ↗

— Carl Jung

#his #individuality #itself #man #mass

My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#best part #fear #me #part #probably

There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#any #content #devoid #i #i am