Never until the wounded came back from Bunker Hill had I realized the lengths of which a determined minority will go in order to achieve its ends. For the first time I understood one of the fundamentals of warfare: that armies cannot be raised by nations or parties unless the rage of the people is first kindled by lies and name-calling. Kenneth Roberts
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  1. Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having... - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  2. Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love. - George R.r. Martin
  3. Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is. - Vladimir Nabokov
  4. All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it. - Woody Allen
  5. A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. - William Blake
More Quotes By Kenneth Roberts
  1. If it's really education you want for Nathan, ' Buell said, 'have him read the papers, so he'll know what's going on in the world, and why. Teach him to be interested in everything he doesn't understand - interested enough to find out about it...
  2. All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.
  3. Valiant! The word mocked me, for I knew myself to be anything but valiant. What I had done, I had done in a fit of insane bitterness, not with cool courage, not with brave quick thinking, not with presence of mind - but with absence...
  4. People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first hear it.
  5. People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first heart it.
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