100+ Expendables Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". Jimmy Reid's speech on his inauguration as rector of Glasgow University, www.independent.co.uk. 1972.

topic: Men, Challenges, Depth, Expendables

Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way.

- Ani DiFranco

topic: Sleep, America, People, Expendables

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

- Ted Williams

topic: Sports, Pieces, Earth, Expendables

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

- Harry S. Truman

source: Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.317, New Word City

topic: Soldier, Politics, Politician, Statesmen, Expendables

All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Art, Philosophy, Past, Expendables, Social Pressure

Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

- Robert A. Heinlein

source: "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

topic: Children, Men, Long, Expendables

Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable. Their common view that life is expendable explains the left's embrace abortion-on-demand and why the Islamists don't hesitate to deploy their own children for homicide bombings.

- Gary Bauer

topic: Children, Squares, Views, Left Wing, Disdain

Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were 'restructuring,' 'reengineering,' and generally cutting as many jobs as possible, white collar as well as blue . . . The New York Times captured the new corporate order succinctly in 1987, reporting that... 'All such allegiances are viewed as expendable under the new rules. With survival at stake, only market leadership, strong profits and a high stock price can be allowed to matter'.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Strong, Jobs, New York, Stock Price, Downsizing

To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.

- Wendell Berry

source: Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.80, Counterpoint Press

topic: Believe, Thinking, People, Expendables

Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.

- Wole Soyinka

source: Source: www.nobelprize.org

topic: Religious, Lines, Today, Expendables, Religious Fundamentalism

Gays have rights, lesbians have rights, men have rights, women have rights, even animals have rights. How many of us have to die before the community recognizes that we are not expendable?

- Octavia St. Laurent

topic: Gay, Men, Animal, Expendables

The military is such a hierarchical institution. It's an institution where, if you are assaulted by a person senior to you, you're probably the person that's expendable and that's going to get in trouble.

- Joy-Ann Reid

topic: Senior, Military, Trouble, Expendables

Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Men, Black, Culture, Expendables, Criminality

When you go to a movie with so many stars [like The Expendables 3], you don't know what you're going to find, exactly. You don't know if it's going to be an ego trip, ego on the set, who is taking this position, where the camera is, I want to be in front of this guy - that's true... It's worse, actually, when you have people around you that are very hungry to obtain something that they never had. Success.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Stars, People, Guy, Ego Trip, Expendables

People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.

- Sylvester Stallone

source: Interview with Chad Williams, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 11, 2010.

topic: Real, School, People, Expendables

Any ensemble - they didn't call it "the all-male Expendables," for example. But it's Hollywood's fault that people say that, because there have been so few movies that have allowed women to have these leading roles, so that's Hollywood's fault.

- Paul Feig

source: "Ghostbusters Director Paul Feig: It's "Hollywood's Fault" Female Leads Are Still Rare". Interview with Lindsay Miller, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

topic: People, Female, Roles, Expendables

Whoop-de-do," said Ram. "What?" "I'm celebrating." "Was that irony or loss of mental function?" asked the expendable. "Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in me?" "I have no confidence in you, Ram," said the expendable. "Well, thanks." "You're welcome.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Thank You, Loss, Rams, Expendables, Rhetorical Question

I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.

- Tania Raymonde

source: "Tania Raymonde Talks MTV’s DEATH VALLEY and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 11, 2011.

topic: Action, Hardcore, Heavy, Expendables

It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even state governments, is that there is no more complete end-to-end weapon system in the inventory of war machines than the child soldierMan has created the ultimate cheap, expendable, yet sophisticated human weapon at the expense of humanity's own future: its children.

- Roméo Dallaire

topic: Children, War, Reality, Child Soldier, Expendables

Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

- Florynce Kennedy

topic: Expendables, Searchers

I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged, and the planned have the right to live.

- Mildred Fay Jefferson

topic: Order, Land, Perfect, Expendables, Save A Life

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

- Nan Fairbrother