#war

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#bear #beings #cent #constantly #down

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#been #bravo #could #directed #directors

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#clothing #doing #exists #infant #know

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#again #began #doubts #i #period

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#body #brain #enemy #hacking #pieces

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#become #behalf #better #better understood #broader

Either war is obsolete, or men are. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#men #obsolete #war

Surviving is the only glory in war. ↗

— Samuel Fuller

#only #surviving #war

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#being #consists #follows #language #less