Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to
be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time,
for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy.
- Aristotle
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over
the world.
-- Isaac Asimov
Now we're all sons of bitches.
- Kenneth Bainbridge at the first nuclear explosion Trinity (1945)
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least
they can find Kuwait.
- A. Whitney Brown
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
-- William S. Burroughs
Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left.
If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
-- William S. Burroughs
In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In
peace: goodwill.
--Winston Churchill
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to
so few.
--Winston Churchill
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without
bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and
not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight
with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There
may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope
of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
-- Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.
--Winston Churchill
I like a man who grins when he fights.
--Winston Churchill
Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce
the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
--Winston Churchill
.... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; It is to wage war, by
sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that
Godcan give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed
in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.
You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory
at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and
hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
--Winston Churchill
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight
in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight
with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend
our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields
and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
--Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
--Winston Churchill
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended
by a bodyguard of lies.
--Winston Churchill
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is
make the rubble bounce.
--Winston Churchill
Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never.
--Winston Churchill
Don't talk to me about Naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy,
and the lash.
--Winston Churchill
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man
objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
--Clarence Darrow
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which
differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people
are even incapable of forming such opinions.
-- Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned
my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him
the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should
be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality,
deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how
despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than
be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under
the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
-- Albert Einstein
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else
-- unless it is an enemy.
-- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-- Albert Einstein
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
--Benjamin Franklin
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with,
has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
--Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
--Benjamin Franklin
Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost
more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford
so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men
descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal
of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?
--Benjamin Franklin
All we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
- Barry Goldwater
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
-- Hanlon's Razor
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect
it.
- Jack Handey
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
-- Frank Herbert
My will decides.
--Adof Hitler
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand
of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
--Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
--Thomas Jefferson
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
--Thomas Jefferson
Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress
of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an
unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.
--Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1815.
Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women and children,
since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined,
imprisoned; yet we have not advanced an inch towards uniformity. What
has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and
the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the
earth.
--Thomas Jefferson
The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the thing, however,
is to change it.
-- Karl Marx
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky,
that would be like the splendor of the Mighty one... I am become Death,
the shatterer of worlds.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer at the first nuclear explosion Trinity (1945),
recalling the Bhagavad-Gita
There are very few personal problems which cannot be solved by the suitable
application of high explosives.
-- George Orwell
The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
-- George Orwell
Time makes more converts than reason.
-- Thomas Paine
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by
making other bastards dying for their country.
-- George Smith Patton
While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in
the other.
- Sir Boyle Roche
War does not determine who is right, only who is left.
-- Bertrand Russell
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there
is no good evidence either way.
-- Bertrand Russell
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
- General John Sedgwick, last words at the Battle of Spottsylvania (1864)
Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.
--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
-- Voltaire
Argument's are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
-- Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
-- Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations.
When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
-- Oscar Wilde
United Nations, New York, December 25. The peace and joy of the Christmas
season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military
forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots
of every persuasion.
-- Anon
