David Ward

“Self-serving leaders can literally get people killed. But in any society, leaders who aren’t willing to make sacrifices aren’t leaders, they’re opportunists, and opportunists rarely have the common good in mind. They’re easy to spot, though: opportunists live reflexively, blame others for failure, and are unapologetic cowards.”
― Sebastian Junger, Freedom

“Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it.”
― Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

“For me, making a record is like building a ship in a bottle. Playing live music is like being in a rowboat in the ocean.”
― Jerry Garcia, quoted by William Plummer in "The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady", p. 144h

“Christianity is a high moral system based on the preaching of a destitute ascetic.”
― Sebastian Junger, Freedom