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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #venti




Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.


Patrick Cockburn


#conventional-thinking #euphemism #language #laziness #savagery

Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric)


Shannon A. Thompson


#choice #death #destiny #fate #fiction

That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.


Rodney Stark


#inventions #technology #faith

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.


John Quincy Adams


#imperialism #independence #isolationism #liberty #noninterventionism

We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation.


Anthon St. Maarten


#conformity #conventionality #creation #diversity #expansion

Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.


Criss Jami


#apologetics #christianity #christians #divine #divine-intervention

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.


Tennessee Williams


#artist #invention #world #art

If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a trampled and cleansed province of Greater Serbia, Kosovo would have been emptied of most of its inhabitants, and the Taliban would still be in power in Afghanistan. Yet nothing seems to disturb the contented air of moral superiority of those that intone the "peace movement".


Christopher Hitchens


#leftism #noninterventionism #pacifism #peace-movement #iraq

He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a single solvent-admiration; there was no room for anything else. He was great; great as the number of people who told him so. He was right; right as the number of people who believed it. He looked at the faces, at the eyes, he saw himself born in them, he saw himself granted the gift of life. That was Peter Keating, that, the reflection in those staring pupils, and his body was only it's reflection.


Ayn Rand


#convention #society #life

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.


Michael Ignatieff


#human-rights #politics #equality