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“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.”
Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.
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“Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.”
Source : A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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“No war is inevitable until it breaks out.”
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“Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!†said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.”
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“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”
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“Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.”
Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.96, Penguin
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“As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.”
Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.188, The New Press
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“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”
Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
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“Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.”
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“I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?”
