Polemology Quotes & Sayings

To accuse nations (not leaders or governments) is the hallmark of the demo-nationalist of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries; it leads to endless hatreds, feelings of revenge, misunderstandings, and frictions. It is the surest guarantee for perpetual mass wars. — Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them. — Laurence J. Peter

Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest. — Sophocles

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly. — John Le Carre

I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing. — Julie Bowen