It’s like the British in Ireland in 1916’ , says Oisir O’Dowd. ‘The repeated the ageless macho mantra, “Force is the only thing these natives understand, ” so often that they ended up believing it . From that point they were doomed.
I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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Holly Black
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
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Unknown
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
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Nicholas Klein
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise...
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Mary Midgley
Always listen to your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.
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Suzy Kassem
More Quotes By David Mitchell
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi...
