Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.
Quotes to Explore
-
Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
-
Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
-
Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
-
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
-
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
-
Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
-
Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
-
People die because they find living too painful.
-
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
-
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
-
Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
-
Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.
-
I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
-
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.
-
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
-
Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
-
I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.
-
Israeli governments cling to the two-state notion because it seems to reflect the sentiments of the Jewish Israeli majority, and it shields the country from international opprobrium even as it camouflages relentless efforts to expand Israel's territory into the West Bank.
-
The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.
-
Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.
-
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
-
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
-
I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.
-
The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.
