Top 35 Morgenthau Quotes
#1. Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.
Alex Berenson
#3. As Morgenthau points out, small- and medium-sized states like Israel, Great Britain, France, and Iran cannot absorb the same level of punishment as continental-sized states such as the United States, Russia, and China, so that they lack the requisite credibility in their nuclear threats.
Robert D. Kaplan
#4. It is Hillary's [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael Bloomberg, attorney and labor mediator Theodore Kheel, and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, crane to see her.
Gail Sheehy
#5. Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against crime.
Robert M. Morgenthau
#6. The comedy of the wicked,
Is the tragedy of the saint;
But the saint's comedy,
Is the wicked's remedy.
Stephan Attia
#7. Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman
Hans J. Morgenthau
#8. The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.
Robert M. Morgenthau
#9. As much as it hurts to know he's walking away, I also know that I need to let him. I asked for this. We need this. I need this. I
Colleen Hoover
#10. Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
Hans Morgenthau
#11. Because she, too, was the Dark One, wasn't she? They all were, as much as they were all Forest Dwellers, without Elyon's cleansing waters. Yet they were chosen. It was up to them to follow either the one who had made them dark, or the one who had chosen each of them. Teeleh or Elyon.
Ted Dekker
#12. Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#13. We experience a body experiencing an outer world. But really, the experience of the outer world, as well as the experience of the body, are not happening in two different places.
Bentinho
#15. One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
Adrian Cronauer
#16. Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.
Hans Morgenthau
#17. Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.
Hans Morgenthau
#18. I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.
Robert M. Morgenthau
#19. We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
#20. The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of the statesman's thinking, reasons more often than not in the simple moralistic and legalistic terms of absolute good and absolute evil.
Hans Morgenthau
#21. All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.
Bat For Lashes
#22. Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.
Hans Morgenthau
#23. I follow You, Lord, because You are my home. Wherever You are is where I belong.
Stormie O'martian
#24. Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
#25. International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power
Hans J. Morgenthau
#27. only because language has something in common with the world that it can be used to picture the world, so it is only because of logic that our sentences have meaning at all.
Dan Cryan
#28. And if the Colonel thought that calling me his friend would make me stand by him, well, he was right.
John Green
#29. When we speak of power, we mean man's control over the minds and actions of other men. By political power we refer to the mutual relations of control among the holders of public authority and between the latter and the people at large.
Hans J. Morgenthau
#31. A clear prayer for which you take sole responsibility has no option but to manifest, if not today or tomorrow, then the day after that.
Pooja Ruprell
#32. A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.
Michael Josephson
#33. I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.
John Kluge
#34. I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.
Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
#35. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises.
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
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