Benjamin B. Ferencz Quotes

Well, if it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war. If they tell me they want war instead of peace, I don't say they're naive, I say they're stupid. Stupid to an incredible degree to send young people out to kill other young people they don't even know, who never did anybody any harm, never harmed them. That is the current system. I am naive? That's insane.

Benjamin B. Ferencz

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• I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Real
  • Blues
  • Captain

• California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Business
  • Water
  • California

• All beautiful things in this world are because of women.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• In Delhi, where I grew up, commerce is brusque. You don't ask each other how your day has been. You might not even smile. I'm not saying this is ideal - it's how it is. You're tied together by a transaction. The customer doesn't tremble before complaining about how cold his food is.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Together
  • Food

• The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men
  • True
  • Science

• The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Important
  • Art

• Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

  

  Elizabeth Kostova
  • People
  • Passion

• There is a strong side to me, that is of a homemaker. I look forward to spending time at home in the evenings, cooking a meal, chatting with my parents and inviting friends over.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Time
  • Home
  • Friends

• Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.

  

  Jeffrey Deitch
  • Up
  • Art
  • Challenge

• Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

  

  Joe Baca
  • Important
  • Children
  • America

• I sing about the things that I don't have conversations about.

  

  Brantley Gilbert

• As we get older, it's important for us to help hand back some of what we've gained as we've grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities - it's almost like being a mentor.

  

  Ciara
  • Important
  • Help
  • Hand

• Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Reading

• I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Great
  • Book
  • Judge

• I love sightseeing.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers

• I was not into B-movies. A lot of it is sloppy.

  

  Corey Stoll

• What is it going to take to dismantle the systems that keep me from being able to live well and that keep me and so many other people from being able to access the things that we need and deserve?

  

  Alicia Garza
  • People
  • Live

• A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, 'It lightens and it thunders,' is conjunctive, 'It lightens or it thunders' is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • May
  • Taken

• In order to spare you any further repulsion, it would be best not to mention any of the unpleasant details of this story, particularly a secret message, a toboggan, a deceitful trap, a swarm of snow gnats, a scheming villain, a troupe of organized youngsters, a covered casserole dish, and a surprising survivor of a terrible fire.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Fire
  • Snow

• The power of incumbency cannot be underestimated.

  

  Eric Swalwell
  • Power

• The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Success
  • Kind
  • Inspiration

• I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Business
  • Friendship

• Dennis Rodman says North Korea is 'not that bad'. Dennis Rodman is deeply stupid.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Bad
  • Stupid

• Well, if it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war. If they tell me they want war instead of peace, I don't say they're naive, I say they're stupid. Stupid to an incredible degree to send young people out to kill other young people they don't even know, who never did anybody any harm, never harmed them. That is the current system. I am naive? That's insane.

  

  Benjamin B. Ferencz
  • War
  • Stupid
  • Kill