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- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
- The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable…
- Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the…
- Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
- It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one…
- Humility is a virtue when you have no other.
- War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.
- Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.
- We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.
- Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
- Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
- Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
- In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate.…
- Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to…
- Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your…
- Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
- I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But…
- May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on…
- There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him.…
- There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of…
- Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water…
- I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've…
- Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour