"The CIA runs the drone program in Pakistan solely, not with the military. Then there's a joint CIA-military program in Yemen, then the CIA is involved in a lot of use of spy drones around the world and in the proliferation of bases."

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Source : Source: progressive.org

Medea Benjamin

#Running Quotes #Military Quotes #Spy Quotes

“Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.”
“And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet we eat it with pleasure. And their cold cherry soup is a horror to us, and yet it sends a German into ecstacy. In short, symphonic development is just like German philosophy and soup-all worked out and systematized. When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brother, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then might amuse himself with some reasoning.”
“Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.”
“I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded, or as committed to an absurd metaphysical conception of freedom that violates Kant's own philosophy).”
“Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.”

Source : Tom Wolfe (1982). “The Purple Decades: A Reader”, p.229, Macmillan
“At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'.”

Source : Paul Caponigro (2002). “New England Days”, p.38, David R. Godine Publisher
“We must motivate ourselves to do our very best, and by our example lead others to do their best as well.”
“Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.”

Source : Alfred Whitney Griswold (1957). “In the university tradition”

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