"If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Nuclear Quotes #United States Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.”
“They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.”

Source : Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.
“Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.”

Source : "Mariamne: A Tragedy" by Elijah Fenton, (Act IV, Scene V, p. 46), 1723.
“The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.”
“All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.”
“So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.”
“Language is the archives of history.”
“The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict our country ever faced. Those that won this war did so in obscurity. Those that gave their lives in the cold war have never been properly honored.”

You may also like:

Arundhati Roy
Author
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Activist
Christopher Hitchens
Author
Marianne Wiggins
Author
Martin Amis
Novelist
Padma Lakshmi
Author
Taslima Nasrin
Author
Deepa Mehta
Film director
Shahin Najafi
Musician