Carlos Saavedra Lamas Quotes

War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.

Carlos Saavedra Lamas

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• Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• At the end of the day, it's all about money.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Money
  • Day
  • End

• The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • End
  • Milk
  • Cow

• Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Rest

• We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Live
  • Power
  • Nature

• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • War
  • Better

• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Up
  • War
  • Giving

• People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Work
  • War

• In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Culture
  • You
  • Order

• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • World
  • War
  • Greatest

• Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • Up
  • War
  • Military

• I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Time
  • War

• I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Culture

• In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • War
  • Peace
  • Vietnam War

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • People
  • World
  • End

• When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • War
  • End
  • Loser

• My mother always cooked, every day, proper food. We didn't have fast food. It was probably pretty much meat and two veg, but as time went on and new things came into the culture, she embraced all of that. I grew up with mealtimes and sitting around the table with proper cooking and eating.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • War
  • Know

• They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • War
  • Death
  • Peace

• When you fully focus in the match, you don't think too much about the atmosphere and the climate. Even if the temperature goes up, we will both sweat the same.

  

  Lin Dan
  • Up
  • Focus

• I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Artist
  • Person
  • Regret

• War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.

  

  Carlos Saavedra Lamas
  • War
  • Culture
  • End