Quotes of: Military-service Keyword

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Isabel Paterson

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

John F. Kennedy

We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.

Ger Duany

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

George Santayana

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

Charles Babbage

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

Alphonse Allais

At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.

Wally Schirra

A military career offers the stability many South Korean women crave.

Kim Young-ha

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Allan Massie

Service is what life is all about.

Marian Wright Edelman

Dr. Lois Jolyon West was cleared at Top Secret for his work on MKULTRA. West's numerous connections to the mind control network illustrate how the network is maintained, not through any central conspiracy, but by an interlocking network of academic r...

The C.I.A. Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists

Carter's renowned 1979 "malaise speech" [...] is little remembered for what it actually was: a call to arms for fixing our nation's dire energy future. "Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977--never" [....

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military - or a disciplined, up-to-date military anyway - in its focus on concrete results. How else would companies survive fierce compet...

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

For more than a decade, the United States had been giving large-scale military aid to the French colonialists, and then to the American-installed but authoritarian South Vietnamese government, to fight nationalists and communists in Vietnam. More tha...

The Struggle for Democracy

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. Wh...

The Cost of Discipleship

The political reputation of Servius rests upon his organization of society according to a fixed scale of rank and fortune. He originated the census, a measure of the highest utility to a state destined, as Rome was, to future preeminence; for by mean...

The Early History of Rome:

The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that ...

The Fault in Our Stars

Daemon laughed "I'm only at the service of one person in particular" My cheeks flamed as I scooted my chair over. "You are not servicing me in any way." He leaned in, closing my newly gained distance. "Not yet." "Oh, come on, Daemon I'm right here." ...

Onyx

Finally, especially in the case of medical-response canines and those that serve handlers with invisible disabilities, it's not merely the necessity of the dog that's questioned but also the existance of the disability itself. And for these partnersh...

The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing

The Bible is teh means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service. Secured by the knowledge that in Christ, our origin... and destination is God, we will yield the fruit of service to God. T...

Richard Foster