Top 21 Beinart Peter Quotes
#1. Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.
Peter Beinart
#2. Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.
Peter Beinart
#3. I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.
Henry David Thoreau
#4. I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.
Peter Beinart
#5. The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.
Peter Beinart
#6. For more than a half-century, anti-intellectualism has had a pretty good run in presidential politics. In fact, Republicans would never have gotten where they are without it.
Peter Beinart
#7. The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.
Cesar Pelli
#8. A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#9. We tend to regard history as true and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' as untrue. That's always puzzled me.
Tim O'Brien
#10. I believe that most humans have within them the capacity to commit murder.
Richard Ramirez
#11. I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.
Peter Beinart
#12. We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!
Auliq Ice
#13. The lessons in measurement of cloacal forces. Time as a flow of sewage. The excrement of space, scatology of creation. The voiding of the self. The whole filthy integration of things and the nocturnal product . . . drowning in the pools of night.
Thomas Ligotti
#14. I think the tragedy of Barack Obama's presidency is that although a lot of people around the world really admire Barack Obama a lot, they don't admire the American political and economic model as much as they used to.
Peter Beinart
#15. I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.
Peter Beinart
#16. I think ultimately Obama's ability to rebuild America's image in the world will depend less on his personal good will and more his ability to rebuild an American economic model that seems stable and humane and dynamic.
Peter Beinart
#17. There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.
Peter Beinart
#19. But I love you." His green eyes looked sad. "It was a fucked up week, a misunderstanding that we both took too far. How come I can forget, but you can't?" "Because, I'm not a masochist." I smirked, bitterly. "Last time, was really the last time for us.
Sarah Tork
#20. Our sense of optimism, our can-do spirit, that's a source of great strength in America. But when there are no limits at all and we've gone through whole periods where we think everything has gone right, that's when disaster tends to strike.
Peter Beinart
#21. Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you're looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel tired and old earlier than you want, and the misery of your caged soul will always be looming nearby.
Debbie Ford
