John T. Houghton quotes

John T. Houghton quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.”
-- John T. Houghton

#Historical Quotes #Disaster Quotes

“For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.”
“A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.”
“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.”
“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revoÂlution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.”
“A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.”
“Iâ€™ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.”
“The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.”
“In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.”
“When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.”
“Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.”

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