“The death toll is not nearly high enough… too many [jihadists] have escaped.”
Referring to the Fallujah offensive on November 2004 <br class="br"> Speech at Kenyon College, Ohio http://collegian.kenyon.edu/article.php?id=2400, (2004-11-15): On the 2003 invasion of Iraq <br class="br">2000s, 2004
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Christopher Hitchens305
British American author and journalist 1949–2011Related quotes
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The road to high pay is a toll road.”
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 48
“We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)
Letter to John Adams (1774)
Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Context: No matter how nearly perfect an Almost Perfect State may be, it is not nearly enough perfect unless the individuals who compose it can, somewhere between death and birth, have a perfectly corking time for a few years. The most wonderful governmental system in the world does not attract us, as a system; we are after a system that scarcely knows it is a system; the great thing is to have the largest number of individuals as happy as may be, for a little while at least, some time before they die.
Matt Sanchez (1970) writer, journalist
[Kelly, Jack, Tale of two atrocities: Iraq reporting rife with errors, Bucks County Courier Times, A5, July 6, 2007]
“Yes, and how many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Blowin' in the Wind
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
Modern version: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Meditation 17. This was the source for the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Source: Meditation XVII - Meditation 17
Context: No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Article I, p. 786 (See also.. Public-private partnerships).
