When I was Younger, I wanted to be something. Now, I just want to be younger.
After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics. ' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future. '. . . If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.
. . . people miss a great deal by being sensible.
I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.
You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?
I wasn't a huge fan of reality shows, because I'm like 'they're taking away from the actors,' but sometimes mindless is just wonderful.
Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.