#lit

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#art #attempt #defeat #even #expect

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#america #entire #entire world #face #fortunes

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#been #bewildered #death #face #face reality

It is not serving, but servility, that is menial. ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#servility #serving

I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political. ↗

— William Odom

#bin #both #drain #huge #i

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it. ↗

— William Odom

#beyond #come #context #decided #deterioration

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities. ↗

— William Odom

#become #countries #different #different countries #each

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics. ↗

— William Odom

#i #politics #presidents #served #under

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. ↗

— William Odom

#bottom #case #command #control #general

While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with. ↗

— William Odom

#certainly #chain #command #dealt #done