William Blum Quotes
Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.
William Blum
Quotes to Explore
Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
Patrick Fugit
The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
Tamera Mowry
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell
Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
Mahershala Ali
Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
Camille Paglia
You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
William Lyon Phelps
To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.
Ed Kowalczyk
I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.
Bruce Willis
If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?
Donald Tusk
We Democrats have got to be strong. When we look weak in a time where people feel insecure, we lose. when people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody who's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right.
Bill Clinton
Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.
William Blum
