“There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.”
Greg Bear (1951) American writer best known for science fiction
Source: Short fiction, Hardfought (1983), p. 76
"Speech to the Norwegian Storting" (30 March 2022) https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/promova-prezidenta-ukrayini-volodimira-zelenskogo-v-parlamen-73961
“There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.”
Greg Bear (1951) American writer best known for science fiction
Source: Short fiction, Hardfought (1983), p. 76
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)
Context: I realize the tragic significance of the atomic bomb. Its production and its use were not lightly undertaken by this Government. But we knew that our enemies were on the search for it. We know now how close they were to finding it. And we knew the disaster which would come to this Nation, and to all peace-loving nations, to all civilization, if they had found it first. That is why we felt compelled to undertake the long and uncertain and costly labor of discovery and production. We won the race of discovery against the Germans.
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan's power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us.
Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist
From a speech accepting the Sydney Peace Prize, November 07, 2004 http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=41&ItemID=6594 <br class="br">Speeches
Leon Trotsky book Terrorism and Communism
Source: Terrorism and Communism (1920), Chapter three, p. 53
Condoleezza Rice (1954) American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; political scientist
Foreign Affairs http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20000101faessay5-p20/condoleezza-rice/campaign-2000-promoting-the-national-interest.html, January/February 2000.
Seishirō Itagaki (1885–1948) Japanese general
Quoted in "Time" - by Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce - Australia - 1923 - Page 29.