“Peace is expensive, and so are human rights and civil liberties; they have a price, and we the peoples have not yet offered to pay it. Instead we are trying to furnish our globe with these precious ornaments the cheap way, holding our sovereignty cautiously in one fist while extending the other hand in a gesture of co-operation. In the long run this will prove the hard way, the violent way.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“When you’re working at an unsustainable pace, when you feel emotionally flooded, when things are moving so fast you can’t keep up, then you need to add Stillness to your day. The goal is to take however much time you need to quiet your mind.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much.”
Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
“In my life, I have given a fuck about many people and many things. I have also not given a fuck about many people and many things. And like the road not taken, it was the fucks not given that made all the difference.”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“Peace is sweet, my lady… but on what terms? It is no good hammering your sword into a plowshare if you must forge it again on the morrow.”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“Whether we wish it or not, we may soon have to make a clear choice between the special nation to which we pledge our allegiance and the broad humanity of which we are born a part. This choice is implicit in the world to come. We have a little time in which we can make the choice intelligently. Failing that, the choice will be made for us in the confusion of war, from which the world will emerge unified--the unity of total desolation.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“Peace is not something to be kept, like a pet monkey; peace is the by-product of responsible government.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“Many excellent sites have been proposed as headquarters for the United Nations, but the location we like best is the Black Hills of South Dakota. Staunch advocacy of this site appears from time to time in the appendix of the Congressional Record, and we have been following it, first with interest, lately with enthusiasm. Unquestionably, the seat of the new world league should be Dinosaur Park, near Rapid City, South Dakota, in the Black Hills, for in Dinosaur Park stand the cement figures, full size, of the Big Five of Long Ago--Tyrannosaurus rex (35 feet long, 16 feet high), Triceratops (27 by 11), Brontosaurus (90 feet long, weight 40 tons), and a couple of other plug-uglies of the period, all of them in combative attitudes astride a well-worn path. Much can be said for such a bizarre setting. Here let the new halls be built, so that earnest statesmen, glancing up from their secret instructions from the home office, may gaze out upon the prehistoric sovereigns who kept on fighting one another until they perished from the earth.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“Peace was what people were groping for, and when Americans grope for something they turn naturally to display advertising and grope all over the place.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“The presence of Fascism anywhere constitutes a threat to peace, and you do not need to debate it.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters