Top 33 Bacevich Quotes
#1. No one wants to set foot outside unless it's to go somewhere
Nina Stibbe
#2. It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.
Andrew Bacevich
#3. As it turned out, Clark's shortcomings as a strategist - particularly failing to accurately take the measure of Milosevic - were as nothing in comparison to his deficiencies as a battlefield general.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#4. I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#5. If you try to walk in my shoes, you'll end up in a bookstore.
Anonymous
#6. The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.
Andrew Bacevich
#7. I began to appreciate that authentic truth is never simple and that any version of truth handed down from on high - whether by presidents, prime ministers, or archbishops - is inherently suspect. The powerful, I came to see, reveal truth only to the extent that it suits them.
Andrew Bacevich
#8. As the writings of Walton and others suggest, many evangelicals view the requirements of U.S. national security in the here-and-now and the final accomplishment of Christ's saving mission at the end of time as closely related if not indistinguishable.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#9. For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.
Andrew Bacevich
#10. See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.
David Bowie
#11. Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.
Andrew Bacevich
#12. What does a car bomb say about poverty, or the execution of a rural mayor explain about disenfranchisement? ...
The war had become, it it wasn't from the beginning, an indecipherable text.
Daniel Alarcon
#13. If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera.
Andrew Bacevich
#14. We are squandering our wealth in many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom.
Andrew Bacevich
#15. To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.
Andrew Bacevich
#16. Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you.
Andrew Bacevich
#17. as the Age of Bush gave way to the Era of Obama, little of substance changed. That was the greatest irony of all.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#18. As you walk farther into the room it becomes a field of endless streetlamps, the stripes repeating in fractal patterns, over and over and over.
Erin Morgenstern
#20. If what we change does not change us, we are playing with blocks.
Marge Piercy
#21. The war that the officer corps prepared itself to fight was the war in which the prospects of actually having to fight were most remote. This made perfect sense.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#22. As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.
Andrew Bacevich
#23. Americans entrust their security to a class of military professionals who see themselves in many respects as culturally and politically set apart from the rest of society.53
Andrew J. Bacevich
#24. I collect underwear from my travels. Lace, lingerie, bodysuits ... they're like souvenirs.
Miranda Kerr
#25. Hope is what one relies on when one has no control of one's fate. We, my dear, have nothing in common with those who rely on hope, Thaddeus proclaimed.
Mayandree Michel
#26. In an era that exalts individual autonomy above all other values, the state as a practical matter has long since forfeited its authority to command citizens to defend the nation.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#27. History had singled out the United States to play a unique role as the chief instrument for securing the advance of freedom, which found its highest expression in democratic capitalism.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#28. The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.
Evita Peron
#29. When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.
Jeff Koons
#30. Even as U.S. policy in recent decades has become progressively militarized, so too has the Vietnam-induced gap separating the U.S. military from American society persisted and perhaps even widened.47
Andrew J. Bacevich
#31. On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.
Bobby Orr
#32. In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.
Tom C. Clark
#33. Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.
Andrew Bacevich
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