#wars

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#again #conducted #during #had #hoped

Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were. ↗

— Mark Hamill

#even #felt #fruit #giant #i

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill. ↗

— Jon Heder

#childhood #companies #coolest #downhill #gone

Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#been #civilized #denied #developed #friendly

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card. ↗

— Steny Hoyer

#card #credit #credit card #fiscal #fiscal responsibility

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster. ↗

— John Kasich

#civil wars #disaster #discipline #ethnic #getting

We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#else #how #institutions #life #lovely

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#am #could #i #i am #meet

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework. ↗

— John Knowles

#back #both #desks #doing #earlier

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#always #attitude #class #cleared #confusion