Charles E. Allen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.

  • In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

  • You're always going to have terrorism.

  • American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

  • If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

  • Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

  • I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

  • There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.

  • My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

  • Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

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