I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important. . . so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.
Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.
It is better to copulate than never.
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects.
There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough.
If a chick wants to know who makes my shoes, she's got to take them off my feet and look inside.
Let's enjoy this world. Let's enjoy one another. We are meant to love one another, not to hate one another.
I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.