Chalmers Johnson Quotes
When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.
Quotes to Explore
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
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Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.
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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
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The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
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USA Today doesn't like my 'tone,' humor, sarcasm, etc. etc., which raises the intriguing question of why they hired me to write for them in the first place. Perhaps they thought they were getting Catherine Coulter.
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If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.
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My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.
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Sushi is one of my favorite foods.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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I thrive on physical confrontation. It's a competitive juice in me. I'm always going to have that in the back of my mind. So whether I'm 49, 59, 69 or 109, I'm always going to think that I can go out and compete.
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Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
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It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.
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It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
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When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.
