"The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves."

-- Pierre Trudeau

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Politician Quotes

“As for me, I had to know exactly what the situation was in Dukla Pass. Moscow had demanded it.”

Source : "The Last Six Months: Russia's Final Battles with Hitler's Armies in World War II" by Sergeĭ Matveevich Shtemenko, (p. 312), 1977.
“We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.”
“A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.”
“[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.”
“There is a lot that I will not do in Hollywood.”
“There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.”

Source : Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”
“Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.”

Source : Eero Saarinen (1962). “Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect”, New Haven : Yale University Press

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