George Ball famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
-- George Ball

#Liars #Lying #Past
The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.
-- George Ball

#Israel #America #Survival
Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.
-- George Ball

#Middle East #Prejudice #Problem
Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.
-- George Ball

#Struggle #Garden #Desert
Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.
-- George Ball

#Responsibility #Israel #Doubt
Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.
-- George Ball

#Israel #America #Friendly

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Liars need to have good memories.
White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight through reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.
The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.
When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

George Ball famous quotes

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