Thomas W. Horton quotes

“Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary.”
-- Thomas W. Horton

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“Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American.”
-- Thomas W. Horton

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“We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also the best way to get there. A river knows better-:it has to do with how it dissipates the energy of its flow most efficiently; and how, in its bends, the sediment deposited soon turns into marshes and swampy islands, harboring all manner of interesting life, imparting charm and character to the whole waterway. I would defy you to find a river on this planet that prefers to run straight, unless it has been taught so by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.”
-- Thomas W. Horton

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“Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho”

“Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.”

Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.66, Lulu.com

“Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.”

“On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.”

“Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?”

“If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!”

“Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?”

“The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.”

“As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.”

“Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?”