"No one told these American soldiers they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with US patents."

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Source : Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.52, The Forlorn Press

Smedley Butler

#Brother Quotes #Dark Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.”
“I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?”
“Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.”

Source : Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.102, Wayne State University Press
“All human life can be found in an airport.”
“How far back to the elementary school core curriculum do we have to go to get someone on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology caught up?”
“Failures are the stepping stones to success.”
“I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?”
“The thing with films is that you have to make something that will get people out of their houses, away from the TV set. You must touch people, say something. Otherwise, they'll stay at home.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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