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Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

Jonathan Safran Foer
War, People, Nine
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.

Jonathan Safran Foer
War, Kissing, Animal
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story?

Jonathan Safran Foer
War, Animal, Choices

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

Jonathan Safran Foer
War, Night, Boredom

When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.

Jonathan Safran Foer
War, Organization, Soldier

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