Impaciente Plan Quotes & Sayings

In short, the oppressor and the oppressed, instead of fighting it out within the city, directed their aggression toward a common goal-an attack on a rival city. Thus the greater the tensions and the harsher the daily repressions of civilization, the more useful war became as a safety valve. Finally, war performed another function that was even more indispensable, if my hypothetical connection between anxiety, human sacrifice, and war prove defensible. War provided its own justification, by displacing neurotic anxiety with rational fear in the face of real danger. Once war broke out, there was solid reason for apprehension, terror, and compensatory displays of courage. — Lewis Mumford

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and nothing is but what is not. — Samuel Laman Blanchard

I feel certain that words
can be as human
as people,
alive
with the breath
of compassion. — Margarita Engle

Self awareness gives us ultimate human freedom. — Stephen R. Covey

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility. — Madeleine Albright

The curve of your eyes goes around my heart,
A round of dance and sweetness,
Halo of time, nocturnal and safe cradle,
And if I don't know any more all that I've lived through
It's because I haven't always been seen by you. — Paul Eluard