"Do we really think that the United States……" — George Lakoff
"Do we really think that the United States will have the protection of innocent Afghans in mind if it rains terror down on the Afghan infrastructure? We are supposedly fighting them because they immorally killed innocent civilians. That made them evil. If we do the same, are we any less immoral?"
—
George Lakoff
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
11 Quotes by George Lakoff
George Lakoff has 11 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption…
-
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
-
Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For…
-
Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.
-
For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature.…
-
For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.
-
We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the…
-
If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.
-
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should…
-
The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has…
See all 11 quotes by George Lakoff »
More Afghan Quotes
This quote is filed under Afghan Quotes,
one of 80 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different…
— Hillary Clinton
-
As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of…
— John F. Kerry
-
As president, my goal in Afghanistan will be to complete a successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end…
— Mitt Romney
-
Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly…
— Condoleezza Rice
-
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
-
Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan to transform her own life and ended up revolutionizing the lives of many of her…
— Unknown Author
-
The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages…
— Unknown Author
-
They [U.S. soldiers] are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our…
— Sarah Palin
-
In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly…
— Mark Steyn
-
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the…
— Asne Seierstad
-
Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will…
— Hamid Karzai
-
As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
— Hamid Karzai
See all 80 Afghan Quotes »