Anne O'Hare McCormick Quotes
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
Quotes to Explore
-
The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
-
On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
-
An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.
-
Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
-
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
-
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
-
I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
-
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
-
I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
-
I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.
-
The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.
-
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
-
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
-
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
-
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
-
Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.
-
I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I'm not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I've had to re-examine my thinking.
-
One of the most important things the United States did in the aftermath of World War II was to help returning veterans with housing. In 1945, in my home state of Oregon, we established the Veterans Home Loan Program, which for over 60 years has provided more than 300,000 loans. This has changed the lives of Oregon veterans and revitalized communities.
-
We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
-
It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.
-
I always liked the stress, the real high-stakes, get-the-orders-out line-cook job, as well as the ordering of the produce and everything - it's really similar to making music for a show like 'Hannibal.' It's like cooking; it's just like owning a restaurant.
-
Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.
-
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
-
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
