#diction

In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb. ↗

— Chris Hedges

#narcotic #war #love

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#ethics #moral #business

One thing I must tell you preacher is to let go of the old life you were living before you repented, because they are playing a greater role in your life than your life as a believer.Since you have repented, you need to remove your old self like a garment and put on your new self so that you may not continue to deceive yourself or be living a double lifestyle and be arrested by death or the coming of the LORD. ALMOST THE WHOLE THING Page106 available online at amazon, barnes and noble.... ↗

— James C. Uwandu

#death

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#addicts #death

Dear Mind, why do you keep talking to yourself? Mind: Don't blame me for your stupid Faceboook status messages & tweets. ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#funny #humor-inspirational #twitter-addiction #inspirational

But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last. ↗

— David Levithan

#lover-s-dictionary #tableau #love

We love the things that destroy us, because in that destruction we truly feel alive. ↗

— Robert Pobi

#destruction #life #love #love

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#addiction #addictions #addictive #another #first

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#expressed #opinion #order #truth

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy. ↗

— Martin Amis

#conspiracy #evil #fiction #goes #mind