We burned to death 100 000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
True love makes the thought of death frequent easy without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison the price one would pay for many things.
Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling the death of inspired response the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
It is the cause not the death that makes the martyr.
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free makes no sense.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say 'He's very odd but he likes to cook. He's creepy but he makes good pancakes!'
I've had a little bad bad media luck the new year. Well apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton which makes me nervous. I didn't know though.
Dating in Los Angeles can be hard which makes it all the better when you meet a really nice guy.
I think that every therapist that I know including my dad and my sister have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.
I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.
My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.
When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor writer producer or director - lives to be a certain age you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.
Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one it gives eloquence to the mute it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.
One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.