"My point is, if another country does to us what we do to others, we‘re not going to like it very much. So I would say that maybe we ought to consider a golden rule in — in foreign policy. ... We endlessly bomb . . . these countries and then we wonder — wonder why they get upset with us? And — and yet it — it continues on and on. This idea that we can‘t debate foreign policy, then all we have to do is start another war? I mean, it‘s — it‘s warmongering. ... They‘re building up for another war against Iran, and people can‘t wait to get in another war. This country doesn‘t need another war. We need to quit the ones we‘re in. We need to save the money and bring our troops home.
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Selected Quotes of Doris Lessing
"Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
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