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“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, and see which one fills up first.”
― When the Wolf Comes Home
― When the Wolf Comes Home
“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
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“I ask you: Who are the most dangerous drug abusers in the world? Scotch drinkers. Who invaded Cuba and assassinated Lumumba and Diem? John F. Kennedy, a drinker of Scotch. Who pumped half a million troops into South Vietnam as if they were so much sewage from under Dallas? Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Scotch drinker. And who's willing to blow us all to Armageddon to secure Christian civilization? Why,_ George Bush, Cap Weinberger, Paul Nitze and Eugene Rostow, Scotch drinkers all, I believe.”
― OUTLAWS IN BABYLON: THE ORIGIN STORY OF AMERICAN CANNABIS
― OUTLAWS IN BABYLON: THE ORIGIN STORY OF AMERICAN CANNABIS
“the remark of a Middlesex Regiment officer in 1918. “Intelligence services,” the man had said, “are prone to looking up their own arses and wondering why it’s dark.”
― Zoo Station
― Zoo Station
“Thus it is that the statement on the Jews issued by Vatican II in 1965 was nothing more (or less) than a forceful restatement of the traditional church teachings in language appropriate for the time. Unfortunately, this particular manifestation of anti-Catholic history lives on with renewed venom in recent indictments of Pope Pius XII as Hitler’s collaborator in the Holocaust, which also is said to be quite in keeping with the pope’s support of Franco and the Spanish fascists. Ironically, this historical libel has mainly been propagated by alienated Catholics, while the most compelling support for the pope has come from Jews.”
― Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History
― Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History
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