Macht Nichts Quotes & Sayings

HERE IS THE MOST CHILLING WAY I can find of stating the matter. Until recently, "waterboarding" was something that Americans did to other Americans. It was inflicted, and endured, by those members of the Special Forces who underwent the advanced form of training known as SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape). In these harsh exercises, brave men and women were introduced to the sorts of barbarism that they might expect to meet at the hands of a lawless foe who disregarded the Geneva Conventions. But it was something that Americans were being trained to resist, not to inflict. — Christopher Hitchens

Perfection should not have come quite so soon. — Jane Austen

Whilst Man, however well-behaved,
At best is but a monkey shaved! — Charles Darwin

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular. — Catherine McCormack

Large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark. — James Madison

All I'm saying is that your happiness is in your hands and those of your nearest and dearest. And if you think I'm going to show up two decades or so down the line to collect your soul in my moldy old pocketbook, you'd better think again. The souls of humans have become poor and transparent things. — Stephen King

In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person. — Elle Fanning

I used to date a girl from Buffalo. Why can't I meet a girl with normal parents? — Rodney Dangerfield

Authenticity is the seed of your identity and you can't go wrong with it in life. — Euginia Herlihy

The end is always the same. That's why what we do does matter. Good or bad, we die. If we bring some light and prosperity into the world, isn't that better than there being less light? — L.E. Modesitt Jr.