"Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times."

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Source : "The Arms Race". Book by Philip Noel-Baker, 1958.

Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

#Peace Quotes #Errors Quotes #Government Quotes

“We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.”
“"Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months. And the Oscar nomination, the film's producer says Colombians are comparing it to having the national team in the World Cup.”

Source : "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.
“I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.”
“Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.”
“We live in a time when there are tech companies that have an unprecedented accumulation of power, wealth, and information with basically no competition. It's not in their nature to self-regulate, to break themselves up, or ask for less information. It's only in their nature to grow and gain more information from us, because the more that they know about us, honestly the better they can market to us and sell to us and make us better consumers.”

Source : Source: www.empireonline.com
“Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.”

Source : "The Cassell Dictionary of Regrettable Quotations". Book by David Milsted, 1999.
“You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.”
“What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell, I'll never know why!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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