Russell Baker Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

  Russell Baker

  Peace, War, History

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

• The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

  Russell Baker

  Peace, War, Hero

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

• Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

  Russell Baker

  War, People, Culture

• Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

  Russell Baker

  War, Thinking, Opposites

• A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

  Russell Baker

  Jobs, War, Thinking

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