#erna

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. ↗

— Richard Perle

#control #dictatorships #exert #external #internal

Persephone is just a name for a spirit of beauty at a certain time in history. I'm sure we could argue a biblical place for her if it matters. Your wife has the name of that pagan goddess, but the fact remains that she's your mortal bride in the Year of Our Lord 1888- and she's Catholic, so pray for her, damn it, I don't care how confusing it is. And pray for us, to anyone. If the dead are about to flood Athens, divine goodwill couldn't hurt. Your prayers can be in Hindu, if you like. Now go home. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#love #mythology #persephone #prayer #strangely-beautiful-series

Once I married Fernando, I became invisible. ↗

— Esther Williams

#fernando #i #invisible #married #once

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#alone #antiquity #away #current #edifice

People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you're talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really. ↗

— Jerry Zucker

#asking #believe #ghosts #i #i believe

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

#creeds #eternal #gospel #human #ideologies

The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#army #assemblage #brigades #fighting #force

But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#divine #eternal #inside #japan #like

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#external #god #necessarily #religion #search

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally. ↗

— Jim Balsillie

#buying #customers #definitely #internationally #noise