Bob Herbert famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.
-- Bob Herbert

#Fighting #Iraq #Soldier
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
-- Bob Herbert

#Power #Arrogance #Mixtures
There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.
-- Bob Herbert

#Country #Violence #Lovers
There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.
-- Bob Herbert

#War #Dark #America
Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.
-- Bob Herbert

#Education #School #Reality
I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.
-- Bob Herbert

#Smell #Warfare #Complaining
We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration
-- Bob Herbert

#Racist #Easier #Polite

We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.
I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.
After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.
You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

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