We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.
The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most.
In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.
In order to survive as a race, as a planet, you must learn to share light. There is no other way.
To submit isn’t to be forced. It’s to yield a force greater than your own, in order to become part of the whole.
Death makes its own choices. Has reasoning an order has a taste…
How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.
(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.
mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.
In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.
Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.
There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.
I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.
