About the Vietnam War, in his last speech at the Senate on the subject
“If we think that the world is here for us we will continue to destroy it the way we have been destroying it, because we think we can do no harm.”
Parrots, the Universe and Everything (2001)
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English writer and humorist 1952–2001Related quotes
As quoted in Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him http://archive.li/OvPcZ (August 2008), by Humberto Fontova
The State of the World 2010, public lecture in New York City, USA, (July 2010)
“If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.”
The Lazio Speeches (1936), as quoted in The Book of Italian Wisdom by Antonio Santi, Citadel Press, 2003. p. 88.
1930s
"The Moral Asymmetry of Happiness and Suffering", pp. 159-160
Suffering and Moral Responsibility (1999)