Gebrek Bensu Quotes & Sayings

Live in Courage, Die in Honor — Wolf Wickham

People are always rattling on about what "we" should do, whether they are talking about "their" country or "their" race or all of humanity or some other abstract group of humans who don't give a damn what they think about anything.

Who is "We?" Who can you legitimately speak for? Who cares what you say?

If you don't know, you're just running our mouth. You're just some guy yelling at the TV during a football game. Your "we" can't hear you and if they could, they wouldn't care anyway. — Jack Donovan

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace. — James D. Watkins

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces. — Bob Inglis

Now Gibbie had been honoured with the acquaintance of many dogs, and the friendship of most of them, for a lover of humanity can hardly fail to be a lover of caninity. — George MacDonald

Striking in its insistence and durability is the quest or desire for a decisive criterion with which to differentiate humans from other animals as well as the human from the animal in human beings. — Dominick LaCapra

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. — Mahatma Gandhi

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income. — P.T. Barnum

I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo. — Eve Ensler

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power. — William J. Clinton

Community is like peace in that it is a result instead of an action. Peace results from acts of justice and behaviors of love. Community also emerges out of loving behaviors - like compassion and an embrace and forgiveness - and out of acts of justice. — Scot McKnight

Know your purpose and you can climb any mountain. — Sascha Bosio

Donating money to a few of my favorite free-market organizations used to be a pleasant duty, but now I'm literally inundated with demands from hundreds of think tanks and public-policy groups, all vying for my limited funds — Mark Skousen

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes. — Harold E. Varmus