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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.
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Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.
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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.
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I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
