“The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.” WarStatesLevelsMoralDangerousMassIntellectualLowsEntityAntisocial Author:Christian Lous Lange
“The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.” WarCountryStatesLevelsUnitedUnited StatesCaughtProsperityProtectionAcceptedRecoveryPostsOpennessCaught UpPost War Author:Lawrence Summers
“The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.” WarStatesLevelsMilitaryHigherRegardStrategyHigher LevelConducting Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.” PeopleIfsWorldBelievePersonsWarWould BeI BelieveLevelsAttentionKnownViolenceDisappearBangsNo WarDispleasureGavel Author:Fran Lebowitz
“War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?” MenWarAnimalLevelsEnterpriseBloody Author:David Gemmell
“Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.” MenWarUseCultureTermLevelsPovertyDangerPersonalityMassIntellectualStressTerrorEntertainmentMeaning Of LifeGrayMotivatedCynicalCensorshipProtectiveBourgeoisIndirectUtilitarianismMass Culture Author:Andrei Sakharov
“Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.” WorldWarSelfPastLevelsMoralEffectsPaperIntelligentTownsComicSelf RespectVillageFarmsWagesPapersTravel The WorldWorkmenArtisansLabourersRustic Book:The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927 Source: The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927
“At the beginning of this year also, I called upon the North Korean side to open dialog between the responsible authorities of the South and the North at any place, at any time, and at any level, in order to prevent a recurrence of war and to cooperate to speed up the peaceful unification of our fatherland. However, no sincere response has yet been made by North Korea.” YearsMadeWarOrderSidesLevelsAuthorityResponsibleSouthResponseSpeedPeacefulUsaSincereKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanUnificationFatherlandNorth KoreanRecurrence Book:Jimmy Carter Source: Jimmy Carter
“You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government.” WarSelfGovernmentLevelsRolesIgnoranceConflictHighestIraqArroganceDelusionVietnamIraq WarDaveSelf Delusion Author:Jonathan Yardley
“If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about increasing its navy to take over the South China Sea.” IfsThinkingWorldWarLevelsSeaBuildingSouthChinaWar Of The WorldsWorld War INavyReducing Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Being Americans, we prosecute wars to win them, not to have reasonable response, not to have appropriate levels of retaliation. Our theory is you start bombing our cities; we're going to defeat you and make it impossible.” WarWinningLevelsCitiesImpossibleTheoryResponseDefeatReasonableAppropriateBombingRetaliation Author:Newt Gingrich
“War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.” PeopleMenTryingWarBigsLevelsDoubtWonderfulMen And WomenSoldierLots Of MoneyWoundedDo The BestAngstBig Business Author:Jon Anderson
“Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals. It's a bit like a small war on that level. The great ones have that combination of freedom and control. I'm nowhere near that. There's still so much to do as an actor. I have enough to explore with that.” StillsWarEnoughActorsBitsAbilityLevelsDisciplineCombinationGreat Ones Author:Robin Williams
“The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history … On every level - moral, strategic, military and economic - Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.” ShouldWarLevelsPayMoralEconomicMilitaryConsequenceIraqStrategicIraq WarBlunders Author:Tomas Young
“One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my woman's womb. Seeing this war that could end with both lives being lost, or both lives being made, gave me an enlightenment of life itself. It sparked my whole mind to a whole other level of living. And if I never would have seen it, I never would have understood life. I never would have appreciated life.” IfsMindMadeWarEndsWholeLostLevelsSeeingTaughtBabyLessonsEnlightenmentUnderstoodAppreciatedWomb Author:RZA
“It's critical how we want to use these spy programs, these electronic capabilities, where we want to draw the line, and who should approve these programs, these decisions, and at what level, for engaging in operations that could lead us as a nation into a war.” WantShouldWarUseNationsLinesDecisionLevelsDrawsProgramCriticalOperationsCapabilityEngagingSpy Author:Edward Snowden
“[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.” YearsHas BeensWarEndsUseAmericaFightingWaitingLevelsSecretPlansMediaFoolTerribleWeaponsLowsDrawsShotsSightCriticsIraqBritishGermanyJapanWarningPilotsIrrationalPearlsSaddamHarborsSanctionsLow LevelInformingWar Plans Author:John Leo
“World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in those years got jobs both in teaching and in factories - at all social levels - which they enjoyed very much. A lot of them were quite happy during the war.” MenWorldYearsLongWarJobsFightingSocialLevelsFeminismTeachingHe ManLong TimeEnjoyedWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiFactoriesWorld War I Author:Margaret Drabble
“There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude.” WarLevelsExampleDemandDiseaseWeaknessConcernedManagementMedicineCancerCurrentsProofAlternativesConspiracyMainstreamDreadDominantSuperiorityTokensComplementaryAlternative MedicineIneptitude Author:Robert Atkins
“Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority. Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That's true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.” KnowsMeanPersonsWarWinningIndividualLevelsResponsibilityCompanyMilitaryBuildingSucceedAuthorityCreatingMythAll TimeManagersFirmHeatGiantsDelusionPerformersSoftwareInitiativeFormalEffectivenessManufacturingSoftware Company Author:Tom Peters