Walter Goodman quotes

“The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.”
-- Walter Goodman

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“Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.”
-- Walter Goodman

Source : Walter Goodman (1963). “All Honorable Men”

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“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.”

“A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.”

“The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.”

“The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.7, Courier Corporation

“There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.”

“Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.”

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”

“I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.”

“The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. Nobel Lecture Disarmament, Technology, And The Growth In Violence by Alva Myrdal 1982 Nobel Peace Prize December 11, 1982.

“The reason the world is in the spot it's in is because North Korea entered into an agreement and then did not keep up their terms of the agreement. They received aid in return for promising not to develop nuclear weapons. They took the aid, they ran with the aid and then they developed a nuclear weapons anyway.”