Paula Coughlin quotes

“It has to come out of the chain of command, because the chain of command has really become impotent. The chain of command is vested in protecting itself, and so often, the perpetrator of the assault is in the chain of command.”
-- Paula Coughlin

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“My mother always said to me, 'Right makes might.' At last, I can believe her.”
-- Paula Coughlin

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“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.”

Source : Quoted in James Charlton, The Military Quotation Book (1990)

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

“With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.”

“Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.”

“Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.”

“Apoplexie and lethargie,As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.”

“Simon Crean has painstakingly built a platform for a potentially devastating assault on Howard's fitness for office.”

“Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.”

“Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change”

Source : Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.124, Portobello Books

“We've all been victims. We've all been perpetrators. And, so there is a group that is still experiencing that.”