Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the light of every passing ship.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Dependability integrity the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong that you would never cheat anyone that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all inclusive thing. If a man has character everyone has confidence in him.

Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.