Vietnam Quotes - Page 15

• Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.

  Charles Rangel

  Enough, Enough Is Enough

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. June 14, 2015.

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• I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

  Michael Dirda

  Absolutely Nothing, Shocked

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.

  Muhammad Ali

  Cells, White, Jail

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• Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake.

  Dean Acheson

  Mistake, Immoral

  "Letter from America, 1946-2004". Book by Alistair Cooke, 2004.

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• When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits. Parents need to protect their kids from watching that stuff.

  Johnny Depp

  War, Kids, Guy

  "The Neverland Effect". Interview with Josh Young, Life Magazine, p. 8, November 19, 2004.

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• Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.

  Tom Waits

  Men, Holy Grail, Riding

  "Song: 'Cold Water' ('Mule Variations')". 1999.

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• One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of listening, something that is very rare in a person of his position.

  Martin Niemoller

  Strong, Men, Listening

  "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 225), 1984.

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• Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars; the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard; the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs or 'death professions.

  Warren Farrell

  Jobs, War, Men

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• By the 1970s, the American woman was being called 'liberated' or 'superwoman' while the American man was being called 'baby killer' if he fought in Vietnam, 'traitor' if he protested, or 'apathetic' if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.

  Warren Farrell

  Baby, Home, Men

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• People talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam. There were race riots. It felt like everything was going to get blown up sky-high. It didn’t feel like flower power. It felt like Armageddon.

  Sam Shepard

  Flower, Sky, Race Riots

  Interview with Michael Almereyda, www.interviewmagazine.com. Published.

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• Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.

  Mark Falcoff

  Country, Latin, Degrees

  "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

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• I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.

  John Pilger

  Winning, Two, Pockets

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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• The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.

  Ralph Peters

  Daughter, Son, People

  Ralph Peters (2004). “Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World”, p.287, Stackpole Books

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• The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation.

  Huey Newton

  Military, War, Gun

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• It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record suggests, however, that the policy-makers stayed in Vietnam not so much because of overly optimistic hopes of winning ... as because of overly pessimistic assessments of the consequences of losing.

  Jonathan Schell

  War, Optimistic, Winning

  Jonathan Schell (1987). “The real war: the classic reporting on the Vietnam War with a new essay”, Pantheon

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• It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the start. None of the presidents who waged war in Vietnam contemplated an open-ended campaign; all promised the public that American troops would be able to leave in the not-too-remote future. The promise of withdrawel precluded a policy of occupation of the traditional colonial sort, in which a great power simply imposes its will on a small one indefinitely.

  Jonathan Schell

  War, Keys, Promise

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• I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.

  Robert McNamara

  Loss, Tests, Hypothesis

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, August 30, 2003.

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• The people in our country and in America and in all West European countries, they have to gorge and guzzle so that they don't even start to think about the fact that we have something to do with Vietnam or what it might be about, OK?

  Gudrun Ensslin

  Country, Thinking, America

  "Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History". Book by Siegfried Zielinski, 1999.

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• No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.

  Gary D.

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• Kerry is saying that Bush never showed up for his national guard duty ... and now Bush is on the attack. He's accusing John Kerry of ducking time in the national guard by hiding out in the jungles of Vietnam.

  Jay Leno

  Hiding, Accusing, Duty

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• It's an eclectic film and I think we served the novel really well. And we had a great cast who worked for free. Everyone read it and said, I'm in, from Nick [Nolte] to Albert [Finney] to Omar [Epps] to Barbara [Hershey]. We really had fun and shot it in a very short time. I think the subject matter is more topical today, more to the point, than it was 30 years ago, when it concerned the Vietnam War.

  Bruce Willis

  Fun, War, Thinking

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• I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Thinking, President, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.

  Ben Stiller

  Years, Ideas, Fake

  "Ben Stiller Interview TROPIC THUNDER - ShoWest 2008". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 17, 2008.

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• You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government.

  Jonathan Yardley

  War, Ignorance, Government

  "David Halberstam". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.

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• I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Lost

  Source: collider.com

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