#owe

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#defeat #due #former #glory #humiliation

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ↗

— George Orwell

#beliefs #both #contradictory #holding #means

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. ↗

— Ovid

#habit #more #nothing #powerful #than

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#begins #decisions #denied #importance #important

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. ↗

— Ron Paul

#anything #anytime #away #benefit #cliches

We're a superpower with a Third World grid. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#superpower #third #third world #world

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power. ↗

— James Jarrell Pickle

#his #power #testing #you

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else. ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#allowed #because #competent #consistently #else

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change. ↗