#vic

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#bad #conscience #conviction #deed #deep

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#battles #enemy #fighting #hundred #skill

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#afforded #brutally #day #does #ever

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore. ↗

— Golda Meir

#our #paid #them #true #victories

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#advocate #announcer #been #certain #certain ways

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#crazy #device #ignorant #making #more

We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#border patrol #customs #either #foreign #government

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#crucial #decisive #desert #greek #how

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#going #networks #parties #political #political parties

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#exquisite #i #lead #life #surrounded