Acceptable Quote by Yann Martel Download Open image “War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.” — Yann Martel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acceptable Subjects Transportation War Way
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally only two great novelties have come out of recent warfare. They are: (1) mechanical vehicles, which relieve the Soldier of equipment hitherto carried… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingly restricts the scope and credibility of appeals to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war. — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as we now… — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war. — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN. — Harold Covington Copy Share Image
The government has once again made the right socially acceptable. — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured… — Sally Struthers Copy Share Image
We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
