"There is some rationale backing Kim Jong-un's actions, which are survival - survival for his regime, survival for his country. And he has watched, I think, what has happened around the world relative to nations that possess nuclear capabilities and the leverage they have, and seen that having the nuclear card in your pocket results in a lot of deterrence capability. The lessons that we learned out of Libya giving up its nukes and Ukraine giving up its nukes is, unfortunately, if you have nukes, never give them up."

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Allan Nairn

#Country Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.”
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”

Source : "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.
“There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.”
“Being a teenager who's coming out during a national debate about whether there's something wrong with you, something wrong with the fact that you love someone of the same gender, that's a terrible thing.”
“There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.”
“The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”
“He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.”

Source : François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.9, Gallic Books
“I think if you've won one, quit while you're ahead. I loved doing it, though. If you get an opportunity that great, grab it, as it won't come along again. Until I read in the papers I did it to 'rescue my career'.”

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