"A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility"

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Source : Tom Brokaw (1998). “The Greatest Generation”, Random House Large Print Publishing

Tom Brokaw

#War Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #World Quotes

“Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.”
“Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.”
“Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.”
“If you have some legally sanctioned relationship with the bundle of legal rights traditionally belonging to marriage and governing authority has slapped a label on it, whether it is civil union or domestic partnership or whatever label it's given, it is nonetheless tantamount to marriage.”
“We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.”
“Family is essential because we all yearn to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves.”
“The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.”
“Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correcta nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion andurgency with the massacres of the Armenians. To Sykes, in that ongoing atrocity, the Ottoman Empire had proven it could never again be trusted to protectits religious minority populations. At war's end, the Christian and Jewish HolyLand of Palestine would be taken from it, and the failure of the Crusades maderight.”

Source : Scott Anderson (2014). “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East”, p.234, Atlantic Books Ltd

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