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" Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues. "
Military
Admire
Virtues
" Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people. "
Power
Most
Men
" I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction. "
Situation
Which
Visualize
" I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university. "
Graduation
Look
Know
" I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well. "
Think
Well
Activity
" If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman. "
Natural
American
English
" I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books. "
Like
Books
Try
" I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it. "
Think
World
Black
" I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper. "
Mountain
Shot
Valley
" It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble. "
Trouble
You
Will
" It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help. "
You
Childhood
Education
" Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed? "
How
Extraordinary
Why
" Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did. "
Did
Should
Teach
" Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done. "
Courage
Veterans Day
Done
" Some people are more terrorist than others. "
Some People
More
Others
" The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. "
Battle
Man
Great
" The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. "
Men
Seek
People
" The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion. "
People
Islam
Funny
" The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need. "
Mask
Leader
Time
" There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force. "
You
World
Wicked
" The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West. "
Sense
Low
Islam
" Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they? "
People
You
Whole
" We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes. "
May
Major
Changes
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