"My position on that has been misrepresented again and again and again in the media. Let me make it clear. There are two wars in Iraq. The first one was absolutely necessary and entirely justifiable. Saddam Hussein had attacked and invaded Kuwait, a sovereign independent state, it was a blatant act of aggression, and action was justifiable and necessary. I have no problems with that at all."

-- Bernard Lewis

#War Quotes #Independent Quotes #Action Quotes

“Remember that it's never a crime in the face of humanity and enlightenment to distribute the works of the great humanists among the merchants and moneychangers of this godforsaken country... You better slip me the dough.”
“Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere”
“Itâ€™s unwise to pay too much, but itâ€™s worse to pay too little.”
“Thereâ€™s only truth and not truth. Youâ€™re either very good or evil.”
“Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.”
“Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.”
“There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.”
“Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.”

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