Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.
People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics. ' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future. '. . . If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.
It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.
As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate.
I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
Just remember. . . it doesn't matter how long you have known each other. . all that matters is that he has kept you smiling from day one