Quotes About Indochina

#1. There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

William Westmoreland

#3. France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

Wilfred Burchett

#4. Mothers weep and Sons be dumb
your brothers and children murder the beautiful yellow bodies of Indochina in dreams invented for your eyes by TV

Allen Ginsberg

#5. Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence in Indochina and was reluctant to increase it.

Robert Dallek

#6. If that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.

Michael Herr

#7. The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina.

Noam Chomsky

#8. Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Edward R. Murrow

#9. Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.

Haruki Murakami

#10. I'll be ready for my first kiss! When it happens, it'll happen, but I don't know. It doesn't look like that will be anytime soon.

Emma Roberts

#11. The more you open up to God; the greater part He takes in your life.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing.

Victor Hugo

#13. I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key; in his eye's darkroom I can see my X-rayed heart, dissected body: I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard s study.

Sylvia Plath

#14. Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.

James Blunt

#15. No doubt the foregoing litany of obstacles in the path of success stands out more sharply in retrospect than it did at the time. Hindsight can distort; prophets become prophets only in time.

Fredrik Logevall

#16. Lines are for people who are sad and pathetic. Let's just fuck.

Suzanne Wright

#17. The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

Oscar Wilde

#18. No one is destined for anything. We control our own fates.

Jennifer L. Armentrout