Eric L. Haney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.
-- Eric L. Haney

#Selfish #War #Men
Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.
-- Eric L. Haney

#Legacy #May #Poverty
The world of counterterrorism is like that old jigsaw puzzle in the back of the closet: Its many missing pieces and extra parts jumbled in from other puzzles make it almost impossible to assemble. But in Ghost, Fred Burton manages to join together enough pieces to give us a discerning look at that world. This is a story, told in human terms, that will help make sense of the great puzzle of our times.
-- Eric L. Haney

#Jigsaw Puzzles #Giving #Missing

That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.
Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can stop (or prevent, "empÃ¢echer", Fr.) men from acting badly; the natural sense of commiseration (or "sympathy", - "commisÃ©ration", Fr.) for one's fellow men - compassion, and the influence of education, by association of ideas ("par l'association d'idÃ©es", Fr.) - habit.
You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Eric L. Haney famous quotes

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