Blowback Quotes

#1. Without a clear picture of where the military's covert forces are operating and what they are doing, Americans may not even recognize the consequences of and blowback from our expanding secret wars as they wash over the world.

Nick Turse

#2. It's like you can't even go on the radio anymore and condemn a whole subset of people to hell without getting some blowback.

Samantha Bee

#3. When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

Tim Fargo

#4. The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#5. Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.

Chalmers Johnson

#6. Her own terror rushed upon me, and in that moment of fear, - the most terrible fear a man can experience, - I knew that in inexpressible ways she was dear to me.

Jack London

#7. The surest way to prevent seditions ... is to take away the matter of them.

Francis Bacon

#8. The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them - violence.

Chris Hedges

#9. Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.

Patrick J. Buchanan

#10. The Trappist monk Thomas Keating once said, The cross Jesus asked you to carry is yourself. It's all the pain inflicted on you in your past and all the pain you've inflicted on others.

Brennan Manning

#11. I wish I were driving a blue 1952 Buick
or a dark blue 1942 Buick
or a blue 1932 Buick
over a cliff of hell and into the
sea.

Charles Bukowski

#12. Most of the time, if you treat people right, you don't have to be afraid of them.

Kathy Kelly

#13. The moment you realize yourself as the dreamer and the world as your own dream, you will attain salvation.

Asaram

#14. If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.

Craig Nelson

#15. In the year 2525, that song will be even less popular than when it first came out.

Garry Shandling

#16. He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of showing a son the way." - Odd Thomas - "Odd Hours by Dean Koontz pg 239 chapter 30

Dean Koontz

#17. Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.

Kat Graham

#18. How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

Howard Zinn

#19. Life is for living not achieving.

Debasish Mridha