Douglas MacArthur

Americans never quit.

Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

You don’t win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a b*tch die for his.

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

Mark Twain has wonderful anti-imperialist essays. But you don’t find reference to them. I think the first general publication of them was in a book, Mark Twain’s Weapons of Satire, edited by Jim Zwick about 10 years ago.

It is clear to us that we have to defend our interests, and to do so consistently, not boorishly or rudely, in both the sphere of the economy and of defense.

The despotism of faction is not less to be dreaded than the despotism of an individual.

I believe something is very wrong with the history of our country and how we have messed up the African National Congress.

Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.

Anarchism calls for an elimination to tyranny, all kinds of tyranny. Including the kind of tyranny that’s internal to private power concentrations. So why should we prefer it? Well I think because freedom is better than subordination. It’s better to be free than to be a slave.

As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn’t treat this phenomenon as something bad.

There was a recent study by the IMF which tried to estimate the subsidy that energy corporations get from governments. The total was colossal. I think it was around $5 trillion annually. That’s got nothing to do with markets and capitalism.

Don’t be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the ‘experience of the revolution’ than to write about it.

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

We also entered into what’s now called the sixth extinction, a rapid extinction of species, which is comparable to the fifth extinction 65 million years ago when an asteroid, huge asteroid, hit the Earth, we know.

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.