#han

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jim Talent

#act #afghanistan #allies #circle #commander

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#imagination #more #nothing #taste #than

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. ↗

— Yves Tanguy

#artists #believe #concerning #either #exchanging

Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#change #change the world #create #energy #good

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#better #democracy #dictator #dumb #honest

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#alone #better #mad #rest #than

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#give #great #interesting #me #might

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fail #handy #ideas #very #words

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#crimes #follies #indeed #little #mankind

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#dangerous #does #even #fixing #idea