Occupation: Former United States Secretary Of Defense Birth: June 9, 1916 Death: July 6, 2009
That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public..
Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society..
Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure.
I like to run down to the beach and have a little swim in the nude in the morning..
The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations..
It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred..
Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nat….
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for….
General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!.
All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. the firebombing of Tokyo occur….
Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and through your em….
One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, ….
I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to V….
Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation..
Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, i….
...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way wa….
At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what h….
Belief and seeing are both often wrong..
I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous.
In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil.
There are many ways to make the death rate increase..