Contemplating Quote by Robert Byrd Download Open image “To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences” — Robert Byrd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contemplating Horrible Human experience Humans Thinking War
We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about… — Albert Wohlstetter Copy Share Image
The mind and heart is the field upon which war is waged within us. If we can stop that internal fear-based battle, then those… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
“Think, too, of the great part that is played by the unpredictable in war: think of it now, before you are actually comitted to war. The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: we have to abide their outcome in the dark. And when people are entering… — Thucydides Copy Share
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart. — Rupert Friend Copy Share
War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war. — Mike Hoffman Copy Share Image
War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
If you start thinking war is inevitable, then in your own times, you don't resist it as strongly as you should. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote. — Robert Byrd Copy Share
To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be a last resort, not a first choice. I… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics. — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess? — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's soul, I leave it… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
As we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty.We need to execute people like John… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
