| "Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum." »Thomas Szasz |
| "Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets." »Simone Weil |
| "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music." »Julius Henry Marx |
| "We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can." »Cullen Hightower |
| "I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." »Marechal Ferdinand Foch |
| "War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military." »Georges Clemenceau |
| "Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." »Julius Henry Marx |
| "Love is a kind of military service." »Latin Proverb |
| "Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds." »Rmy de Gourmont |
| "I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Mtro." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple." »Gerald W. Grummet |
| "If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe." »Lord Salisbury |
| "We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them." »Tsutomu Shimomura |
| "People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society." »Vince Lombardi |
| "A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective." »Sun-tzu |
| "It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully." »Doug Vargas |
| "If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it (On military preparedness)" »Nikita Khrushchev |
| "Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face." »Vaclav Havel |
| "We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world." »William Fullbright |
| "The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience." »John Updike |
| "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." »Albert Einstein |
| "An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction" »Hoshang N. Akhtar |
| "He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)" »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
| "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." »John Gall |
| "Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is." »Jorge Luis Borges |
| "One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings." »Franklin Thomas |
| "'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms." »Niall MacDermot |
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