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“In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny.”

“War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.”

Years Long Has Beens War Happens Culture Realizing Community Results Imagine Generations One Thing Economic Policy Victory Eternal Victim Including Defeat Disaster Ruins Regions Alas Serbia

Author:Susan Sontag

“What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.”

Men Hell Effects Pride Abuse Victim Remains Ruins Peculiar Cult Degradation Sinister Perversion Ghastly Stimulants Absinthe

Book:Absinthe: The Green Goddess

Source: Absinthe: The Green Goddess

“Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.”

Fall Break Pieces Anger Victim Ruins

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Here I am, just wandering down a deserted street in the middle of the night. I hope I don't run into any trouble. Goodness, that would just ruin my whole evening." I strolled and hummed, trying to project Innocent Victim.”

Trying Whole Running Night Trouble Streets Middle Goodness Projects Victim Innocent Ruins Wander Evening Here I Am Middle Of The Night Deserted Innocent Victims

Book:Undead And Unwed: Number 1 in series

Source: Undead And Unwed: Number 1 in series

“We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.”

“We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.”

People Want Past Racism Victim Human Rights Myth Tolerance Ruins Intolerance Philanthropy Refugee Jungle Indigenous Zoos Indigenous People

Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.”

People Want Should Ends Government Today America Past Century Racism Victim Myth Ruins Ashamed Latin Indigenous Twentieth Century Latin America Zoos

Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.”

Whole Young Fall Girl Family Generations Morality Relation Victim Males Ruins Enjoyment Minimum Doomed Psychiatry Respectable Intercourse Neurosis Hereditary

Author:Sigmund Freud