David J. Morris Famous Quotes
Reading David J. Morris quotes, download and share images of famous quotes by David J. Morris. Righ click to see or save pictures of David J. Morris quotes that you can use as your wallpaper for free.
Such was the mistrust of the official line, so heavy was the spin, that with any new piece of information you learned to do a kind of mental arithmetic whereby you divided the information given by the speaker's rank, multiplied by his or her time in-country, and subtracted based on the number of miles the speaker was distant from the fighting.
From The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground
We are born in debt, owing the world a death. This is the shadow that darkens every cradle. Trauma is what happens when you catch a surprise glimpse of that darkness, the coming annihilation not only of the body and the mind but also, seemingly, of the world.
The problem, really, is that while humanity continues to experience huge leaps in technology, we experience no equivalent leaps in our ethical capacity. In the never-ending arms race between technology and ethics, technology always wins. Researchers who tally the results of this immortal race have a name for it: history.
The lesson taught by the war was clear: to be human is to be small, powerless, and subject to the forces of randomness.
