"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme."

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Source : Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The essence of security: reflections in office”

Robert McNamara

#United States Quotes #Sanity Quotes #Should Quotes

“When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.”

Source : Gary Carey, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1972). “More about All about Eve”
“Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.”
“What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge. If I had approached it from the perspective of an Indian main character, I think I would have assumed a lot of knowledge and I would have resented the presence of the author.”
“I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.”
“Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.”
“One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.”
“Nothing personal, it's just business”

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