Naval Crews Quotes

#1. A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.

Paul Kriwaczek

#2. There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

Rebecca West

#3. There are no new ideas.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.

B.R. Ambedkar

#5. I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything.

C.S. Lewis

#6. The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.

Donald Rumsfeld

#7. The inclusion of lemon or lime juice in grog, made compulsory in 1795, therefore reduced the incidence of scurvy dramatically. And since beer contains no vitamin C, switching from beer to grog made British crews far healthier overall.

Tom Standage

#8. It's hard to trust our own decisions, but we have no options. We have to do that in order to be all right with ourselves.

Art Hochberg