"Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed."

-- Ludwig Quidde

#War Quotes #Moving Quotes #Usual Quotes

“Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2011). “She: A History of Adventure”, p.146, Modern Library
“The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.”
“Fear is the foundation of most governments.”
“Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.”
“I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals ....”
“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
“You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.”
“For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.”

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