Top 37 Lemay Quotes
#1. It still, after all these years, puts frost into my blood to remember that men like LeMay and Powers had their fingers so close to the button.
Mal Peet
#2. We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
Robert McNamara
#3. I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.
Curtis LeMay
#4. I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
Curtis LeMay
#5. Can we call a moratorium on the use of the term 'ladyparts'? Grazia!
Lena Dunham
#6. Why is it a man can never seem to buckle down and train himself to indolence and stupidity when he can see what sanctuary they offer from toil and pain?
Alan LeMay
#7. I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.
Curtis LeMay
#8. It's hard to believe that the truth lies within us. What about the churches, temples, mosques, bibles and scriptures? They offer comfort. If they cause you discomfort, toss them.
Art Hochberg
#9. There is a great independence, and a confident immunity to risk, in all drinks made out of cactus.
Alan LeMay
#10. It's a privilege to be an actor, as it's not work - it's a job.
Matthew Nable
#11. Well, I go wherever the ring takes me. Not because I'm a gold digger or anything; it's more of a Lord of the Rings thing. This ring gives me powers. Though I'm totally going to lose it when my hair falls out and I start calling it 'my precious.
Cindi Madsen
#12. That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.
Curtis LeMay
#14. You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.
Curtis LeMay
#15. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
Curtis LeMay
#16. I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.
Curtis LeMay
#17. I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war ...
Curtis LeMay
#18. He referred to you as his little snack."
"He's a sweetie.
Ilona Andrews
#19. If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.
Curtis LeMay
#20. Being isolated and on-location can be helpful in terms of being completely dedicated to the work, but somebody like me can also be dangerous in terms of this intense sort of void that you kind of potentially fall into.
Michael Raymond-James
#21. My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.
Curtis LeMay
#22. We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?
Curtis LeMay
#23. I am something of a contrarian, I suppose. I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, 'I better reexamine my position!' I probably believe that the worst opinions in my court have been unanimous. Because there's nobody on the other side pointing out all the flaws.
Antonin Scalia
#24. Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.
Curtis LeMay
#25. If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.
Curtis LeMay
#26. Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity - which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.
David Korten
#27. I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I'm a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.
Shawna Lemay
#28. I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.
Bonnie Raitt
#29. Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time ... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
Curtis LeMay
#30. If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.
Curtis LeMay
#31. Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars
Curtis LeMay
#32. We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.
Curtis LeMay
#33. The wind had blown off, leaving a loud, bright night, with wings beating in the treas and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#34. ... No one ever truly conquers the French.
Vivian LeMay
#35. We're going to bomb them back into the stone Age.
Curtis LeMay
#36. Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.
Curtis LeMay
#37. There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.
Curtis LeMay
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