What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win? Robert McNamara More Quotes by Robert McNamara More Quotes From Robert McNamara That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public. Robert McNamara patriotic president war A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage. Robert McNamara computer-literacy writing inspiring The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without the necessity of arousing the public ire. Robert McNamara united-states fighting war The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation. Robert McNamara balance goal past All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. the firebombing of Tokyo occurred before the atom bombs.. 100,000 civilians died in one night from American bombs.. 500,000 altogether over several days say some. Robert McNamara night war country We see what we want to believe. Robert McNamara want believe Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme. Robert McNamara sanity united-states should General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm! Robert McNamara kind war peace [General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win? Robert McNamara winning men children I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it. Robert McNamara winning war thinking Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and through your embodied activity. Intrinsic to practice is your conscious participation with your life. Engagement is the conduction of your free and open awareness through your activities, whatever they may be. Robert McNamara practice philosophy moving Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not. Robert McNamara nuclear events thinking One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action. Robert McNamara incredibles fashion action One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation. Robert McNamara inspiration faith men They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations. Robert McNamara nuclear weapons mistake I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good? Robert McNamara race evil thinking Belief and seeing are both often wrong. Robert McNamara seeing belief nihilism All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature. Robert McNamara animal men hands Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation. Robert McNamara enough-time action giving I like to run down to the beach and have a little swim in the nude in the morning. Robert McNamara running morning beach
