#action

Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#aspects #defense #difficult #easy #emphasis

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#drawing #everything #just #know #made

There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case. ↗

— Ed Harris

#always #assume #based #case #criticizing

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism. ↗

— B. H. Liddell Hart

#categories #combat #elements #every #fall

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#fact #freedom #full #incompatible #individual

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#action #animate #any #basic #basic human rights

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#cannot #capacity #confined #essential #gift

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#controversial #course #interest #media #most

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#any #bulb #i #i can #light

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. ↗

— John Wooden

#becoming #best #capable #did #direct