Famous Quotes & Sayings

Curtis LeMay

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

Curtis Sittenfeld

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

Alice Sebold

I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.

Elie Wiesel

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Elie Wiesel

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Edna O'Brien

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

Daniel Goleman

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

Jack McDevitt

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

Lester Brown

Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse.

Carl Sagan

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

Carl Sagan

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

Carl Sagan

For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

Antoine Rivarol

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

Bertrand Russell

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

Bertrand Russell

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

Bertrand Russell

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

Terry Davis

He was a soldier of justice, which is indispensable to our freedom, stability and peace.

Channing Tatum

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Blaise Pascal

If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

Benito Mussolini

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Calvin Coolidge

Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.

Carl von Clausewitz

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

Brandon Sanderson

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

John M. Smith

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.