Internals Quotes - Page 11

• While there are still imperialist aggressors, the state that has no defense power of its own to protect its sovereignty against the internal and external enemies is, in fact, not a fully independent and sovereign state.

  Kim Il-sung

  Independent, Enemy, Sovereign

  "On Some Problems of Our Party's Juche Idea and the Government of the Republic's Internal and External Policies". Mainichi Shimbun, September 17, 1972.

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• There can be no justification to admit, in any way, the use of armed forced to intervene in the internal affairs of a WTO [Warsaw Treaty Organization] member country. The solving of domestic problems belongs exclusively to the Party and people of each country and any kind of interference can only do harm to the cause of socialism, friendship and collaboration among the socialist countries.

  Nicolae Ceausescu

  Country, Party, Socialist Countries

  Commencement address at the Romanian Military Academy August 14, 1968. "The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968: Forty Years Later". Book by M. Mark Stolarik, 2010.

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• Henceforth we will tackle our enemies that come face to face with us and we will not be stabbed in from behind by internal foes. To this end, we will arm the allies and comrades of the broad masses without giving respite to reactionaries, and avenge the blood of our comrades double - and triple - fold.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Blood, Giving, Enemy

  "Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia". Book by Dawit Wolde Giorgis, 1989.

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• I am for relying for internal defense on our militia solely till actual invasion, and for such a naval force only as may protect our coasts and harbors from such depredations as we have experienced; and not for a standing army in time of peace which may overawe the public sentiment; nor for a navy which, by its own expenses and the eternal wars in which it will implicate us, will grind us with public burthens and sink us under them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Army, Navy

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.212, University of Virginia Press

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• My definition of success is to be happy in what you like to do best. It's not a monetary value; it's an internal value in itself. If you're happy from the inside-out, thats what is important. Success comes as a day to day value or reaching a goal that you have, and you've got to prepare yourself for what's to come when success is there.

  DeMarcus Ware

  Goal, Important, Definitions

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• Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in against him. He might, however, neutralize Elizabth by supporting her internal Catholic enemies, even provoking civil war.

  Peter Padfield

  War, Struggle, Catholic

  Peter Padfield (2000). “Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World”, Overlook Books

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• Each of us is born with an internal navigational system. The thinking of the world has a way of switching the system off, but we can always turn it on again through prayer, meditation and forgiveness. Doing this puts us back on track in our lives, making us wise, convicted and powerful.

  Marianne Williamson

  Wise, Prayer, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Oct 20, 2011

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• I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

  Brian May

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.

  Albert Hofmann

  Eye, Joy, Miracle

  "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.

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• I'm so thrilled to have been asked to guest in the Doctor Who Christmas Special, I'm such a fan of the show. The read-through was very difficult for me; I wanted to keep stuffing my fingers into my ears and scream 'No spoilers!' Every day on set I’ve had to silence my internal fan-boy squeals!

  Nick Frost

  Boys, Doctors, Silence

  "Doctor Who Christmas special gets a Frosty feel" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2014.

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• We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

  Christopher Reeve

  Advice, Needs, Necks

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• The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche. In a historic sense she never lived, but she received the breath of life from my internal spirit, and she cannot be detached from the origin, which is hers. Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by the signs of destiny, this figure arose before me in some way as the embodiment of the mortal agony of an era going totally to its ruin.

  Gertrud von Le Fort

  Destiny, Agony, Profound

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• Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.

  Sumantra Ghoshal

  Ambition, Succeed, Driven

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• I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home–not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors.  How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away.  How you can fall in love with the light.

  Ellen Meloy

  Falling In Love, Home, Light

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• Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never seen before, and only a strong Governmental power able to rely on the confidence of the nation can save it.

  Alexander Guchkov

  Country, Strong, War

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• The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Live Life, Profound, Feelings

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.284, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Past, Echoes

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.375, 谷月社

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• I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Order, Magic

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• For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he can always defend himself by his good troops and friends; and he will always have good friends if he has good troops.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Good Friend, Should Have, Two

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.97, Penguin

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• Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

  Arlen Specter

  Punishment, Would Be, Today

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• The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, Destiny, Mirrors

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government.

  Gerry Adams

  Government, Loyalists, Six

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• Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give back the material of which they are made so that new stars may live

  Hans Bethe

  Stars, Animal, Giving

  Hans Albrecht Bethe (1968). “Energy production in stars: Nobel lecture”

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• Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels light. A northerly wind stirs a primal urge to move. The geese feel it, and so do I. Perhaps it is a last internal vestige from a time, long ago, when we migrated with the seasons across open plains, following the animals we pursued for food. Perhaps that is why the sight of migrating geese arrests our attention, why we feel the pull. We want to go, to travel in fresh or moody weather, taking in each newly revealed vista.

  Carl Safina

  Beautiful, Moving, Animal

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• The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Mean, Language, My Own

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