A Quote by Robert Wilson Lynd
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
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The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
Love, in short is the most dangerous emotion human can experience
The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.
Desert Storm was seen by the military establishment and by some politicians as avenging Vietnam, but it left behind dangerous illusions. The victory was so decisive, and information about it so carefully managed, that the American public was never clearly informed that it was purchased at the price of approximately 100,000 Iraqi lives.
Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.
War remains the decisive human failure.
The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.
Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.
Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.
The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.
The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.
Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.
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