In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.


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I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagre...
ROBERT M. GATES
The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
Why should people in one part of the globe have developed collectivist cultures, while others went i...
ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY
At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the bre...
ROBERT M. DRAKE
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.&...
ROBERT M. GATES
It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which de...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
The student’s biggest problem was a slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carr...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly.
ROBERT M. DRAKE
We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passio...
ROBERT M. DRAKE
The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.
ROBERT M. DRAKE
Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.
ROBERT M. DRAKE
Broken hearts, you can run, you can hide and perhaps the earth is big enough to believe you’re saf...
ROBERT M. DRAKE
I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make m...
ROBERT M. DRAKE
Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.
ROBERT M. DRAKE
Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.
ROBERT M. DRAKE
How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an oc...
ROBERT M. DRAKE
I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE
She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.
ROBERT M. DRAKE
With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.
ROBERT M. DRAKE
These are things you should notice anyway. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the si...
ROBERT M. PERSIG
Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one mode or the other and in doing so tend to misunder...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of e...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on “good” rather than �...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
Quality is the Buddha.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not t...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
Phædrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the g...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle beca...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphem...
ROBERT M. PRICE
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

The more you look the more you see.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
But unlike Paul, his alternatives present him with a "double avoidance conflict"-neither is acceptab...
ROBERT M. PRICE
The Warrenite Christian is like a Star Wars geek who dressed up in costume and dearly wishes he live...
ROBERT M. PRICE
But if subjective pietism is not the real crux of this all-important Gospel, if it is instead belief...
ROBERT M. PRICE
On any mechanical repair job ego comes in for rough treatment. You're always being fooled, you're al...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
I talked yesterday about caring, I care about these moldy old riding gloves. I smile at them flying ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
The machine itself receives some of the same feelings. With over 27,000 on it it's getting to be som...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG