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"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
"Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism."
"I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind."
"I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic, said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."
"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
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"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot."
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