Elie Abel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
-- Elie Abel

#Matter #Telephones #Facts
Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.
-- Elie Abel

#Country #Giving #President
A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.
-- Elie Abel

#Differences #Cuba #Unions
John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.
-- Elie Abel

#War #Choices #Nuclear

There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.
I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.
I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.
Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.

Elie Abel famous quotes

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