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"'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms." »Niall MacDermot
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"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation." »George Santayana
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"A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective." »Sun-tzu
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"Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation." »Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 22
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"Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining in silent for millions of years somewhere outside our universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Make no mistake about it: operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war." »Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
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"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton
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"Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns." »Joseph Weizenbaum
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"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining." »Walter Lippmann
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"Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"Communications without intelligence is noise;
intelligence without communications is irrelevant." »Gen Alfred Gray, USMC
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"Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated." »Robert Collier
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"The “stream” we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence." »Albert Wiggam
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"Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief." »Schopenhauer
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"Everyone has his own truths and every such truth corresponds to a particular intelligence or consciousness level. If some religious absurdities are your truths, then you must increase your level to approach to the real truth! At the position of low level intelligence and consciousness, it is impossible to see the real truth!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." »Thomas Sowell
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"intelligence is nothing without delight." »Paul Claudel
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"I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence." »William F. Buckley Jr.
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"Belief is the death of intelligence." »Robert Anton Wilson
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"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." »Don Herold
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"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it." »Stobaeus
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"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence." »Henry Adams
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"Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Questions are the creative acts of intelligence." »Frank Kingdon
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"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." »Julius Henry Marx
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