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A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18 ↗


— Rudyard Kipling


#deceit #dishonesty #irony #lies #politics

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. ↗


— Ninon de L'Enclos


#awkwardness #conquests #lose #men #more

In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land) ↗


— Wendell Berry


#land #stewardship #art

Now we would wander around like strangers in those landscapes of our youth. We have been consumed in the fires of reality, we perceive differences only in the way tradesmen do, and we see necessities like butchers. We are free of care no longer – we are terrifying indifferent. We might be present in that world, but would we be alive in it? We are like children who have been abandoned and we are as experienced as old men, we are coarse, unhappy and superficial – I think that we are lost ↗


— Erich Maria Remarque


#men

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars. ↗


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#war #change

It’s much easier for a guy to say what he wants and not to be cute and funny all the time, but, if you’re a strong sort of woman, you’re just, for lack of a better word, a bitch. ↗


— Kristen Stewart


#kstew #men #women #men

Change has to come for life to struggle forward. ↗


— Helen Hollick


#life #moving-forward #moving-on #change

War is young men dying and old men talking ↗


— Franklin D. Roosevelt


#president #war #men

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money. ↗


— George Carlin


#poor #rich #money

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. ↗


— Ron Paul


#federal-reserve #fiat #fiat-money #paper-money #war






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