Joseph Heller Quotes

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

Joseph Heller

• Death
• Peace
• Wisdom
• Enemy
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• Suicide

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

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• I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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• I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
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• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
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• I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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• Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  

  Kate Chopin
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• Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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  • Follow

• As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.

  

  Abraham Verghese
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• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
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• Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Peace
  • Kind
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• Biography lends to death a new terror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Death
  • New
  • Biography

• Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Strong
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• President Sadat of Egypt made a historic breakthrough in 1977 when he put an end to war and convinced both Egyptians and Israelis that he was ready to make peace. He broke down the walls of suspicion and prejudice.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • War
  • Peace
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• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
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• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Why
  • Universe
  • Enemy

• I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Death
  • Pain

• I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.

  

  Clemence Poesy
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• Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

  

  C.E. Morgan
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  • Mind
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• Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

  

  John Milton
  • Sober
  • Bliss
  • Waking

• The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Death
  • Peace
  • Wisdom