"Fighting for peace is like screwing for..." - Quote by George Carlin
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
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“So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course.”
“Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.”
“The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].”
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“Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.”
“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”
“Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.”
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“All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.”
“If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.”
“If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.”