Grounder 250 Quotes & Sayings

First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction. — Saxby Chambliss

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair. — Thomas B. Macaulay

I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian. — A.E. Samaan

Letters ... People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read. — Henning Mankell

Nothing is really more inhuman than human relations based on morals. When a man gives bread in order to be charitable, lives with a woman in order to be faithful, eats with a Negro in order to be unprejudiced, and refuses to kill in order to be peaceful, he is as cold as a clam. He does not actually see the other person. Only a little less chilly is the benevolence springing from pity, which acts to remove suffering because it finds the sight of it disgusting. But — Alan W. Watts

They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary. Oh, please, please, save me from the berries!"
The monster looked at him quizzically. "How strange", it said. "The words you say tell me you are scared of the berries, but your actions seem to suggest otherwise.
"You're as old as the land and you've never heard of sarcasm?" Conor asked. — Patrick Ness

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating. — Jack White

If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something. — Marlon Wayans

It was "not so much the [lack of] leisure, but also the nervous tension. One comes back to one's native land and sees that one has been abandoned." - Antheil — Richard Rhodes

Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony. — Debasish Mridha

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war. — Keir Hardie