“The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.” WarPersonalityBattleCharmGrim Author:Edmund H. North
“I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.” PeopleReasonFearFearful Author:Edmund H. North
“It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.” SimpleHavensDisciplineArmy Author:Edmund H. North
“Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.” IfsMenTryingYearsMindHumansDoeSufferingFoundAnswersBrainSkyThousandHundredMarkMathematicsHeatExplorationQuestsThousand YearsFreezeSteamAmazonHuman BrainQuestion MarkNorth Pole Author:Walter Reisch
“We sometimes feel the shadows have got hold of us, the shadows of evil. But still, it's up to us to fight.” FeelsStillsSometimesFightingEvilHuman NatureShadow Author:Dan Totheroh
“Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime.” WorldHumansDoeSocialCrimeBearsOrganizationSpeciesWitnessGoodsAfflictionDistributionProstitutionHideousHuman SpeciesInfamySocial Organization Author:Flora Tristan
“Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man's yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!” MenLongHas BeensLawEvilMoralVirtueRightsSubjectsMoralityPrejudiceVicesPossessionCivil RightsCharmGood And EvilArbitraryDeprivedConstraintsYokeMoral LawFreedom To Choose Author:Flora Tristan
“To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.” WayDeeperRevolutionaryWheelsSandRebelSpinning Author:Kate Millett
“I don't think men see any lusty sexiness in me. The appealing thing is an air of abandonment. Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.” ThinkingMenWantResponsibilityAirAbandonmentSexiness Author:Julie Christie