“It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.”

“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

“If man's heart bares thistles instead of rose who will dare to admire? Before roses cometh thorns, but people only see the thorns not the roses I bare.”

@Remylifwatila

“Mass struggle was utilized throughout the war by the Vietnamese communist party. It was used, first of all, because guerrilla warfare is one expression of the mass struggle. One cannot conceive of guerrilla war when it is isolated from the people. The guerrilla group is the numerically inferior vanguard of the great majority of the people, who have no weapons but express themselves through the vanguard.”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

“I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.”

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director

“Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.”

Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist

“People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.”

Chuck Klosterman (1972) Author, Columnist

“The majority of mankind and people who lack refinement conceive it to be pleasure, and hence they approve a life of sensual enjoyment.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.”

Jacques Maritain book The Range of Reason

“I don't like bare floors.”

Robert Denning (1927–2005) American interior designer