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When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#attack #back #collect #country #no country

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#bad guy #bomb #captured #case #choice

The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#artillery #crashing #deep #effect #extraordinary

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#just #just one #life #little #look

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#because #come #out #problem #really

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#any #away #come #contact #controlling

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#desire #essential #freedom #freedom from #problem

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#attention #being #completely #give #heart

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#around #deal #feel #going #i

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#good #good things #how #know #people