Nonmilitary Quotes

#1. If we fetishize trauma as incommunicable, then survivors are trapped - unable to feel truly known by their nonmilitary friends and family.

Phil Klay

#2. Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.

C. Robert Kehler

#3. One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.

Alicia Silverstone

#4. Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.

Markus Zusak

#5. Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.

Archie Fire Lame Deer

#6. It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

Wendell Phillips

#7. Justice is truth in action.

~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

Benjamin Disraeli

#8. The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.

David Halberstam