"Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront."

-- Elliott Abrams

#Self Quotes #Allies Quotes #United States Quotes

“If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.”
“It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.”

Source : Amelia B. Edwards (2011). “Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers”, p.5, Cambridge University Press
“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
“Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.”
“States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 5),
“Your ambition outweighed your talent”
“I fed my Yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female Yak. I made it my pet after that,”

Source : "'Pamela Anderson is as impressive in her own way as the Dalai Lama': Brian Blessed on booming great form" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. March 1, 2013.
“Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.”

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