It is simply not true that war never settles anything. —Felix Frankfurter More about this quote Tags: truth war finality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Felix Frankfurter Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Austrian-born American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 until 1962, during which he was an advocate of judicial restraint.
More quotations from Felix Frankfurter Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings. —Felix Frankfurter More about this quote Tags: laws Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings. —Felix Frankfurter More about this quote Tags: laws Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “war” War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation: thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes . . . as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure. —Adrienne Rich More about this quote Tags: war politics imagination memory people failure science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email That time of day when the sun hasn't come up yet, but you can already feel it coming. It's an elusive warmth, like a subtle promise whispered in your ear and you can go on with your day knowing you've been given another chance to get it right. —Cassia Leo in Relentless More about this quote Tags: war time right Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: war planning plans preparation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. —Will Rogers More about this quote Tags: war death killing civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. —Rebecca West More about this quote Tags: war perception science astronomy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation: thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes . . . as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure. —Adrienne Rich More about this quote Tags: war politics imagination memory people failure science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That time of day when the sun hasn't come up yet, but you can already feel it coming. It's an elusive warmth, like a subtle promise whispered in your ear and you can go on with your day knowing you've been given another chance to get it right. —Cassia Leo in Relentless More about this quote Tags: war time right Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: war planning plans preparation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. —Will Rogers More about this quote Tags: war death killing civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. —Rebecca West More about this quote Tags: war perception science astronomy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email