Asia Quotes - Page 15

• In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General MacArthur so delicately put it.

  Robert M. Gates

  Army, Should Have, Land

  "Defense secretary warns against fighting more ground wars" by Larry Shaughnessy, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2011.

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• Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.

  Alexander the Great

  Army, Leader, Greek

  "Anabasis of Alexander" by Arrian of Nicomedia, translated by P. A. Brunt. Books I-IV,

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• To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Justice, Islam, Borders

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• Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia's out-of-control huge.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Filipino, Huge

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.53, Macmillan

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• For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, ‘We came in peace for all Mankind.’ As the United States was dropping seven and a half megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.

  Carl Sagan

  Moon, Rocks, Humanity

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• There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along.

  Jess Walter

  Men, Two, America

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• Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Girl, Country, Princess

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

  Amy Chua

  Psychological Disorders, West, Kind

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe was the old," in one stroke eradicating the narratives of indigenous persons for whom America was hardly new, and any nonwhite kids whose old worlds had been in Africa or Asia, not Europe.

  Tim Wise

  Children, Kids, Color

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• All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

  Paul Theroux

  Home, Men, Hemisphere

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Crush, Suicide, Military

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• Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.

  Dionne Warwick

  Latin, Men, America

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• In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided to borrow a bit more and do even better.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Philosophy, Successful

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• Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Women, People

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Heart, Dark

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• The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is sweeping Asia, is sweeping Africa, is rearing its head in Latin America. The Cuban Revolution - that's a revolution. They overturned the system. Revolution is in Asia, revolution is in Africa, and the white man is screaming because he sees revolution in Latin America. How do you think he'll react to you when you learn what a real revolution is?

  Malcolm X

  Real, Latin, Men

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• However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Powerful, Russia, Ukraine

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.49, Basic Books

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• The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Dwarves, Sea, Kuwait

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.120, Basic Books

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• O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Love, Tyrants, Europe

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.32, Penguin

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• I think there will be linkages between the U.S. and Europe and I think there will be linkages between the U.S. and Asia; that is probably a little further off.

  John Thain

  Thinking, Europe, Littles

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• Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.

  Ghassan Kanafani

  Latin, Heart, America

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• The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.

  David Nabarro

  Moving, Europe, Sea

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• Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting soot might well stretch over all of South Asia... It could be carried around the world... [and] the consequences could be dire. Beneath such a pall sunlight would be dimmed, temperatures lowered and droughts more frequent. Spring and summer frosts may be expected... This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans.

  Carl Sagan

  Summer, Spring, War

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• I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.

  Dianna Agron

  Europe, America, Australia

  "Exclusive with Alex Pettyfer & Dianna Agron". Interview, www.seventeen.com. February 15, 2011.

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• I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the biggest challenges facing Asia is to reconcile Asia's rapid economic development with care for the environment.

  Tommy Koh

  Challenges, Environmental, Degrees

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