Bob Keeshan

“The responsibility of parents is to raise children who do not need parents”. –Bob Keeshan

J.F.C. Fuller

“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like; the first obey a mob, always demented, and the second a king, generally sane”. –J.F.C. Fuller

Isabel Paterson

“The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action”. –Isabel Paterson

George Halas

“Many people flounder about in life because they have no purpose. Before it is possible to achieve anything, an objective must be set”. –George Halas

Louis Nizer

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”. –Louis Nizer

Sacha Guitry

“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her”. –Sacha Guitry

Léon Blum

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought”. –Léon Blum

Asger Jorn

“To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art”. –Asger Jorn

Yul Brynner

“Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb”. –Yul Brynner

Werner Heisenberg

“Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves”. –Werner Heisenberg

Paul Valéry

“Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business”. –Paul Valéry

Joseph Schumpeter

“Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest”. –Joseph Schumpeter

Tadamichi Kuribayashi

“The enemy suggested we surrender through loudspeaker, but our officers and men just laughed and paid no attention”. –Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Otto Hahn

“First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our poisonous gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them”. –Otto Hahn

Revilo P. Oliver

“If our squawking pacifists were rational, they would perceive that war can only be ended by abolishing the several species of mammals called human; our spacecraft have shown us that Mars and Venus are perfectly warless worlds”. –Revilo P. Oliver

Douglas Bader

“Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools”. –Douglas Bader

Ferdinand Marcos

“Those whom you fight passionately often turn out to be your best friends”. –Ferdinand Marcos

Linus Pauling

“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away”. –Linus Pauling

William Saroyan

“I care so much about everything that I care about nothing”. –William Saroyan

Kim Il-sung

“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history”. –Kim Il-sung

Mahatma Gandhi

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs”. –Mahatma Gandhi

Klim Voroshilov

“Whoever can lift a rifle should have one”. –Klim Voroshilov

William Arthur Ward

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails”. –William Arthur Ward

Ingmar Bergman

“The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God’s silence”. –Ingmar Bergman

René Magritte

“The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb”. –René Magritte

Karl Barth

“Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain”. –Karl Barth

Chester Nimitz

“Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue”. –Chester Nimitz

William Westmoreland

“When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves”. –William Westmoreland

Harold Pinter

“US foreign policy could be defined as follows: kiss my ass or I’ll kick your head in”. –Harold Pinter

Andrei Grechko

“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolutionary”. –Andrei Grechko

Vidkun Quisling

“A Nordic union between Scandinavia and Great Britain, with the adherence of Finland and Holland, and in which Germany and eventually the British Dominions and America might later on be absorbed, would take away the sting of any communist combination and secure European civilization and peace for the foreseeable future”. –Vidkun Quisling

Jonas Salk

“Neither wisdom nor good will is now dominant. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality”. –Jonas Salk

Learned Hand

“For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not”. –Learned Hand

Bill Mauldin

“Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo”. –Bill Mauldin

Konrad Zuse

“The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers”. –Konrad Zuse

Hideki Tojo

“It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result”. –Hideki Tojo

Charlton Ogburn

“Circumstances are seldom right… You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments”. –Charlton Ogburn

Henri de Lubac

“It is not always charity, alas, which has grown greater, or which has become more enlightened: it is often faith, the taste for the things of eternity, which has grown less. Injustice and violence are still reigning; but they are now in the service of degraded passions”. –Henri de Lubac

J.G. Ballard

“Human beings today… are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They’ve made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They’re rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that”. –J.G. Ballard

Jack Dempsey

“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t”. –Jack Dempsey

Paul Harvey

“In times like these, it’s helpful to remember that there have always been times like these”. –Paul Harvey

Vernon Richards

“Violence as a means breeds violence; the cult of personalities as a means breeds dictators — big and small — and servile masses; government — even with the collaboration of socialists and anarchists — breeds more government. Surely then, freedom as a means breeds more freedom, possibly even the Free Society!” –Vernon Richards

Martin Niemöller

“We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced — and remain convinced now — that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world”. –Martin Niemöller

Sepp Dietrich

“Politics is a whore. It’s too high for me… The only interest in politics is to get to know how to lead a life under the most favorable circumstances”. –Sepp Dietrich

Robert Capa

“In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on”. –Robert Capa

Dean Acheson

“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies”. –Dean Acheson

Walter Matthau

“The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty”. –Walter Matthau

Vyacheslav Molotov

“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out”. –Vyacheslav Molotov

Karl Dönitz

“Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare… Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities”. –Karl Dönitz

Charles Lindbergh

“I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve”. –Charles Lindbergh

Anne Frank

“There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again”. –Anne Frank

Robert A. Heinlein

“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil”. –Robert A. Heinlein

Yukio Mishima

“My knowledge that I am masquerading as a normal person has even corroded whatever of normality I originally possessed, ending by making me tell myself over and over again that it too was nothing but a pretense of normality”. –Yukio Mishima

Bob Hope

“A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you can prove that you don’t need it”. –Bob Hope

Adolf Hitler

“The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its doctrine”. –Adolf Hitler

Francis Biddle

“The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President”. –Francis Biddle

Simon Wiesenthal

“There is no freedom without justice”. –Simon Wiesenthal

Edward R. Murrow

“All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man”. –Edward R. Murrow

Heinz Guderian

“There are no desperate situations, only desperate people”. –Heinz Guderian

Heinrich Himmler

“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us, but we don’t ask for their love, only for their fear”. –Heinrich Himmler

Winston Churchill

“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”. –Winston Churchill