#cog

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win? ↗

— Robert McNamara

#children #civilians #death #doing #had

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#arbitrary #contrasting #culture #diverse #each

I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of people in vehicles and cargo are also facing staffing shortages. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#border #borders #cargo #conduct #customs

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#concentrate #defeat #enter #every #giving

With 'Twilight,' I felt the actors needed to be up-and-coming artists that haven't been recognized yet. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#been #felt #haven #i #needed

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#camera #house #looking #marks #out

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#bind #common #common sense #heed #heritage

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning. ↗

— Kate Millett

#better #conditioning #could #discriminated #found

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth. ↗

— Susanna Moodie

#christianity #great #hater #liar #may

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such. ↗

— Roy Moore

#gives #god #government #history #indeed