#war

This is a war," Lemas replied. "It's graphic and unpleasant because it's fought on a tiny scale, at close range; fought with a wastage of innocent life sometimes, I admit. But it's nothing, nothing at all besides other wars - the last or the next. ↗

— John le Carré

#spy #war #life

While performing the great majority of the actions in their life, people are totally unaware. We tend to go through our daily activities mechanically. We talk without real purpose. We do things without even knowing that we do them. We are not really present to what we are doing. Even if we practise being aware, entire portions of our days can elapse before we retrieve our thread of awareness. In short, we are not living our life, we are sleeping it. ↗

— Samuel Sagan

#life #freedom

One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory. ↗

— Teresa R. Funke

#japanese-internment #life #remembering #war #world-war-ii

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#brought #extent #full #home #only

Science and industry have in less than fifty years developed man's power of destruction to an extent which makes comparison with the past futile. ↗

— Frederick Maurice

#science

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad. ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#books-of-ember #city-of-ember #goodness #jeanne-duprau #lina

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't. ↗

— George S. Patton Jr.

#enemy

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#war #enemy

For me, it’s not about winning an award. It’s also about not even being nominated. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#honor #ignored #nominated #nomination #praise

Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I’ve ever grasped how much pain she’s really in. ↗