“The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.”
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“Never counted in the "costs" of war are the dead birds, the charred animals the murdered fish, incinerated insects, poisoned water sources, destroyed vegetation. Rarely mentioned is the arrogance of the human race toward other living things with which it shares this planet. All these are forgotten in the fight for markets and ideologies. This arrogance will probably be the ultimate undoing of the human species.”
― War Talk
― War Talk
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.”
― Don't Waste Your Life
― Don't Waste Your Life
“[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
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