“it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.” MenWellsHappensDesireDiesStageMilitaryBearsDignityConvincedConquerSensations Book:Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania Source: Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania
“We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and [military superpower] of the planet. That's just not going to happen. We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the [France] of the 21st century: a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.” WorldEndsHappensActionTermBehindsEconomicCenturyMilitaryPositionPlanetsExcellenceFranceGapsCapability21st CenturySuperpower Author:Mitt Romney
“Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the Pentagon, put together some options to accomplish goal.” WantHappensTogetherGoalTermLeaderMilitaryAccomplishInterventionPentagonMilitary Intervention Author:Jack Keane
“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
“America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce, free movement of people. That happens because of U.S. military might.” PeopleWorldImportantPlayMightHappensAmericaOrderLeaderRolesMilitaryMovementCreatingTradeCommerceFree TradeWorld LeaderE CommerceFree Movement Author:David Brooks
““Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”” DoeSeemsGovernmentHappensMilitaryScaryOne WordProtective Author:Adam McKay
“We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.” KnowsMayHappensFacesPoliticalMilitaryDefeat Author:Moshe Sharett
“When people are talking about cyber weapons, digital weapons, what they really mean is a malicious program that's used for a military purpose. A cyber weapon could be something as simple as an old virus from 1995 that just happens to still be effective if you use it for that purpose.” PeopleIfsMeanStillsUseHappensUsedPurposeSimpleTalkingMilitaryWeaponsProgramDigitalReally MeanVirusesMaliciousCyber Author:Edward Snowden
“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.” WarHappensWinningOne ThingMilitaryBattleDefeatThings To DoVeteranMemorial DayVeterans DayInspirational MilitaryOur VeteransMilitary ForceAmerican SoldierHonoring VeteransAmerican MilitaryFighting BattlesGreat MilitaryUs MilitaryMilitary SoldierSoldiers At WarAmerican VeteransMilitary VeteranWars And Battles Book:Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time Source: Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time
“My fear is that that's what's going to happen with robotics and the military. Importantly, this discussion has to involve not just the scientists, but also the political scientists. It's got to be a multidisciplinary discussion. You can't have it be another repeat of what happened with the people working on the atomic bomb.” PeopleHappensPoliticalHappenedMilitaryScientistDiscussionRepeatsBombsRoboticsAtomic BombMultidisciplinary Author:Peter Singer
“It doesn't happen often, it's what you dream and hope for. We are happy, but we want to make sure these changes have teeth. What we want to get across most is that this is a real opportunity for the military. They can step up and be a leader on misogyny and gender issues.” WantRealDreamHappensOpportunityLeaderStepsIssuesMilitaryGenderTeethMisogynyStep UpGender Issues Author:Amy Ziering
“As a human being with notoriety and a big mouth, I've felt most threatened during the first Bush Administration. Whenever there's a Bush in the White House, many people die, and the rest of us are threatened. I just didn't think it would happen quite so quickly. The so-called USA Patriot Act, and the announcement of trying people in military tribunals if Bush or Rumsfeld's or Ashcroft's people think they somehow qualify as terrorists, basically, this is McCarthyism run amok.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingFirstsHumansBigsHappensRunningDiesHouseFeltHuman BeingsWhiteMilitaryMouthsTerroristAdministrationUsaWhite HousePatriotThreatenedAnnouncementsNotorietyPatriot ActTribunalsMccarthyismUsa Patriot Act Author:Jello Biafra
“Nobody can ever learn our military's secrets - unless, you know, they happen to have the Discovery Channel. Then, it's pretty easy, just tune in for a few minutes.” KnowsHappensEasySecretMinutesMilitaryDiscoveryTunes Author:Arj Barker
“I happen to believe that certain types of assault weapons, which are manufactured and designed for military purposes to kill people very quickly should not be used in civilian society.” PeopleShouldBelieveHappensUsedPurposeCertainMilitaryTypeWeaponsAssaultCiviliansAssault Weapons Author:Bernie Sanders
“Mubarak was the glue that held this very leaderless and organic and very pluralistic mix of people together. Now that he's gone, there's a lot more debate and division about what happens next, which is healthy. We're essentially still under military dictatorship right now. The military rules the country. It can issue laws by decree.” PeopleStillsCountryHappensTogetherLawNextGoneIssuesMilitaryHealthyRight NowDebateDivisionDictatorshipGlueDecreeMubarak Author:Sharif Abdel Kouddous
“I think our great task is to make certain that our young men and women in the military do not get sucked into never- ending, perpetual warfare within the quagmire of Syria and Iraq. And I will do my very best to make sure that that doesn't happen.” ThinkingMenHappensYoungCertainMilitaryMen And WomenTasksIraqYoung ManPerpetualWarfareSyriaNever EndingQuagmireMilitary Women Author:Hillary Clinton
“Counting the numbers of troops is not going to define our success here.There is no military success, ultimately, to Afghanistan. The Afghans themselves are going to define what happens here. And we have to convince ourselves that we have a strategy in place that empowers them to do that and that is realistic in what our expectations are from them and on what schedule.” HappensNumbersMilitaryExpectationsStrategyEmpoweringConvinceRealisticAfghanistanTroopsSchedulesCounting Author:Rahm Emanuel
“We have military bases all over the world, and that's purely to protect our portfolio abroad.Our investments, and our production, our exploitation of cheap labor and raw materials. We're on the scene to do that, and the military is there to see that it happens.” WorldHappensMilitaryMaterialsSceneProtectLaborBasesInvestmentProductionsExploitationRaw MaterialsPortfoliosCheap LaborMilitary Bases Author:Philip Berrigan
“If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.” IfsWarHappensCitiesMilitaryCrimeTownsCommittedTargetShellsCiviliansWar CrimesCities And Towns Book:Fire Source: Fire
“I think it's more likely that we can make positive changes happen on environment and military issues if states begin to secede. I don't think it's question of personal lifestyle preference or some sort of parochial identification with your state. I think it's an absolute moral demand that something be done to create a government with some power that can be controlled by the residents of its territory. That was supposedly the idea in creating the United States, but it doesn't exist now and we have to make it exist even if it's piece by piece, part of the United States at a time.” IfsThinkingIdeasStatesDoneGovernmentHappensUnitedMoralUnited StatesIssuesEnvironmentPiecesMilitaryDemandCreatingAbsolutesLifestyleControlledTerritoryPersonal LifePreferenceIdentificationResidentsPositive Change Author:David Swanson
“The fact that many private expenditures are mutually offsetting actually happens to constitute a remarkably good bit of fiscal news. Mutually offsetting spending patterns are wasteful in the same way that military arms races are. In such situations, if each party spends less, nothing is sacrificed, yet resources are freed up that can be put to much better uses.” IfsWayFactsUseHappensBitsPartyRaceSituationMilitaryArmsNewsResourcesPatternsSpendingExpendituresArms Race Author:Robert H. Frank
“For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff I was taking about. In 1990-91, no Russian hordes. Okay, what happens? Well there are actually visions of the future system that were presented. One was [Mikhail] Gorbachev. He called for a Eurasian security system, with no military blocs. He called it a Common European Home. No military blocs, no Warsaw Pact. Just an integrated security system with no conflicts.Now the other vision was presented by George Bush, this is the "statesman".” KnowsYearsWellsStatesHomeHappensStuffCommonVisionHeardSecurityMilitaryConflictEuropeOkaySlaveWesternFiftyStatesmenIntegratedNatoPactHordeWestern EuropeVisions Of The FutureGorbachevSecurity SystemsWarsawWarsaw Pact Author:Noam Chomsky
“A lot of military people just take orders, and there is a place for that. But SEALs think for themselves from day one. That way, when something happens - a kid runs out of a room, a woman is held as a human shield - they can make those decisions on the fly. We always say: "Improvise, adapt and overcome."” PeopleThinkingWayHumansHappensRunningKidsOrderDecisionRoomsMilitaryOvercomingThings HappenShieldsSeals Author:Howard E. Wasdin