#pre

This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#attack #background #experience #future #interventions

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#deceit #defenselessness #double-standards #falsehood #hypocrisy

Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment. ↗

— David Beckham

#big #career #country #few #i

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#avoided #better #dangers #destiny #exceeds

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film. ↗

— Kabir Bedi

#cinema #faces #film #formulae #generation

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#disciplined #fierce #flame #flickering #heart

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cold #i #like #never #order

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#children #going #inconsistency #know #never

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#efforts #governments #law #liberty #man

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#i #mind #pay #paying #pretty