"We had a military and political leadership at……" — Neil Sheehan
"We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded."
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15 Quotes by Neil Sheehan
Neil Sheehan has 15 quotes on this site.
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These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
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You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - dont value human life like we do. Well…
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The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before,…
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Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause…
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Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's…
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I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it…
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World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began…
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At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened…
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I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get…
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We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would…
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We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would…
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I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the…
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More Deluded Quotes
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one of 111 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.
— A A Milne
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If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have…
— David Frum
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others…
— Ayn Rand
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Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees…
— Martin Luther
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If someone as deluded as I was can be brought out of homosexuality then surely anyone can.
— Unknown Author
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Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of…
— Thurston Moore
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Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I`m not deluded by the fact that I`m getting…
— Christopher Lee
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