“I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.” IfsCountryMightTodayFatherMilitaryBecomingPoliticianSixMy FamilyPrisonProfessorsGrandfatherDictatorshipMy Grandfather Author:George Papandreou
“My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.” ThinkingWaySchoolFatherStarsLinesWhitePlayerMilitaryDadMy DadHallsGrandfatherMy GrandfatherOrphanTrumpetsMilitary School Author:Elvis Costello
“I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.” WellsHappensRunningMotherFatherDemocracyMilitaryTrainTroopsSurrogates Author:Alfred M. Gray
“The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.” MenWorldOrderFatherReligiousMilitaryExerciseOrganizationUniversalAbuseArmyAbsolutesAimMereEnormousChiefsDespotismAbsolute PowerMonasteriesSingle ManVolitionJesuit Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertakers assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.” DreamSchoolFatherSupportMilitaryMinesMy FamilyTheatreInjuredScholarshipAssistantsUndertakerMilitary ServiceBristolRaf Author:Brian Blessed
“My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also for the discipline of it. He taught us how to shoot when we were young. He opened up karate schools in the worst parts of the city, on purpose, and then he would systematically clean out a three-block radius, all of the gang-bangers and drug dealers and everybody of nefarious character.” CharacterSchoolYoungPurposeThreeFatherCitiesWorstMilitaryTaughtDisciplineDrugWeaponsCleanBlockGangDealerTaught UsSpecialistsKarateAffinityDrug DealersRadius Author:Lupe Fiasco
“I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.” FirstsWarSchoolFatherForceOpinionClassMiddleMilitaryMembersMy FamilyUniversityConservativeBritishBackgroundsBrokeMiddle ClassTypicalNavyJoiningArmed ForcesMobilityNavalPrivate SchoolUpward Mobility Author:Christopher Hitchens
“[Addressing a group of military officers:] Are you a feminist? Oh ... wrong question. I should have asked, 'Are you a father?' When your daughter loses her job to a clearly less-qualified man, you will discover you are a feminist.” MenShouldJobsFatherLosesGroupsFeminismMilitaryDaughterShould HaveFeministOver YouOfficersQualifiedOur DaughterYour Daughter Author:Estelle Ramey