QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Plato, Sir Peter Ustinov, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Thomas Sowell, Ludwig von Mises, Herbert C. Hoover, Admiral James D. Watkins, Max Planck.

• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
  ~Plato
  
  

• As for being a General, well, at the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords, we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
  ~Sir Peter Ustinov
  
  
• You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
  
• Most wars are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
  ~Thomas Sowell
  
  
• War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
  ~Ludwig von Mises
  
  
• It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow...that are the aftermath of war.
  ~Herbert C. Hoover
  
  
• We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era--a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
  ~Admiral James D. Watkins
  
  
• A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
  – GERMAN PHYSICIST MAX PLANCK (1858-1947)
  
  

 

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