Ledeen Michael Quotes & Sayings

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident. — Michael Ledeen

I think the level of casualties is secondary ... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike people and that we love war ... What we hate is not casualties but losing. — Michael A. Ledeen

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission. — Michael A. Ledeen

I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently. — Michael Ledeen

We are imitating Nature, who is variable; and he who imitates her cannot be blamed. — Michael A. Ledeen

I could spend the rest of my life inside you and die happy. You're my home. - Gabriel's Redemption — Sylvain Reynard

Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. — Michael Ledeen

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government. — Michael Ledeen

If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad. — Michael Ledeen

You ask your readers if they can account for every minute of their lives, every thought in their heads, and be proud of it. You ask them if they've never jaywalked.... never gone thirty-one miles per hour in a thirty-mile zone... if they've never sped up when they saw that yellow light. And when you find that single, sorry person who hasn't taken a misstep, that one person with the right to judge me, you tell him he's just as human as I am. That tomorrow, his world could turn upside down and he might find himself capable of actions he'd never believed possible... you tell him, he could have been me. — Jodi Picoult

I love you, she said. And I knew the point of love right then. The point of love was to help you survive. — Matt Haig

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well. — Michael Ledeen

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. — Michael Ledeen

Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on. — Michael Ledeen

The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action. — R.C. Sproul

Oh, we all are, my young friend! We all deceive. Some of us deceive the whole world, every single fellow creature we meet. Some of us deceive only selected people, wives and lovers, or mothers and fathers. And some of us deceive only ourselves. But none of us is totally honest with everyone all the time, in all matters. Hell, the need to deceive is just one more curse that our sorry species has to bear. — Leigh Nichols

Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness. — Michael A. Ledeen

Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.' — Michael A. Ledeen

I'm very flexible. I've got flexibility in any weight class. If you guys out there want to fight me man, I will fight you guys. — Adrien Broner

The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them. — Michael Ledeen

I suppose that saves us from having to determine what to do with a butler who goes around killing people. It certainly reflects badly upon our domestic staff. Still, I shall miss him. There was a man who knew how to brew a good cup of tea. — Gail Carriger

When you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference. — Ashleigh Brilliant

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches. — Hesketh Pearson

I don't feel I have an alter ego. — Dita Von Teese

But your responsibilities are sometimes given you without choice, without consent. — Terry Brooks

It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters. — Michael Ledeen

Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law ... . They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission. - Michael Ledeen, The War Against the Terror Masters, 2002 — Naomi Klein

In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that has made Machiavelli so feared, admired, and challenging. It is why we are drawn to him still ... — Michael A. Ledeen

Magic is a science.
Miracle is the work.
Mind is a laboratory. — Toba Beta

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless. — Marilyn Manson

The world is one Matrix, you don't realise it but it's the truth. It's well shown in the films like Matrix 1,2,3 and Inception! — Deyth Banger

Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor