“For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.” HumansEnemySeriousEternalHumbleNonsensePieMisogynyHuman HappinessSerious BusinessHumble Pie Book:Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture Source: Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture
“By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe.... He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of necessities. Yet the tinkering and playing, and the fascination with the nonessential, were a chief source of the inventiveness which enabled man to prevail over better-equipped and more-purposeful animals.” MenShouldStatesUniverseAnimalEnemySeriousSourceElementsShould HaveConstantPursuitNakedChiefsShockOddsFascinationCarelessnessInventivenessTinkering Author:Eric Hoffer
“A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so wisely most of the time since 9/11. But there are some enemies that need to be destroyed by force lest they destroy much much more.” ThinkingNeedsMeanWarWinningForceEnemyViolenceSeriousApproachProgramTerroristDestroyedPacifistCan't Win Author:Philip Gourevitch
“It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest to all the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.” ShouldMindSoulWholeLastsTurnsEnemyWrittenSeriousPureTasksDelightHorizonFear Of DeathHere And ThereZestVanquish Author:Felix Adler
“[Donald] Trump`s hunt for a cheap enemy right now comes as journalists and members of Congress are looking at potentially serious conflicts of interest at Trump`s sprawling multinational business empire.” InterestEnemySeriousTrumpRight NowConflictMembersCongressJournalistEmpiresHuntsMultinationalsConflict Of Interest Author:Chuck Todd
“When George W.Bush attacked Afghanistan, it was widely hailed, and the failure of our war there wasn't understood. Within a few months of attacking Afghanistan, Bush clearly moved on to get ready for Iraq, long before Osama bin Laden or Al Qaeda were dispensed with. There was never any serious debate in the press about whether even the notion that every Taliban was our enemy was valid. A lot of assumptions about that war were never challenged.” LongWarEnemySeriousMovedDebateAssumptionAfghanistanBin LadenAl QaedaTalibanOsama Bin Laden Author:Seymour Hersh