Quotes
Quotes - Whitehead
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer
On a 60-mile stretch of road from Mutlaa, Kuwait, to Basra, Iraq, a convoy of more than 2,000 vehicles and tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers and civilians were fleeing. These were people who were putting up no resistance, many with no weapons, leaving in cars, trucks, carts, and on foot. The American armed forces bombed one end of the main highway from Kuwait City to Basra, sealing it off and then bombed the other end of the highway, sealing it off. They positioned mechanized artillery units on the hill overlooking the area and then, both from the air and the land, massacred every living thing on the road. Fighter bombers, helicopter gunships, and armored battalions poured merciless firepower on those trapped in the traffic jams, backed up as much as 20 miles. One U.S. pilot reportedly said, It was like shooting fish in a barrel. That fateful stretch of road has since been dubbed the Highway of Death. In a report submitted to the Commission of Inquiry for the International War Crimes Tribunal, charges are made that those killed were Palestinian and Kuwaiti civilians trying to escape the siege of Kuwait City and the return of Kuwaiti armed forces. The report claims that no attempt was made by U.S. military command to distinguish between military personnel and civilians. ***** The Guardian newspaper in the UK has written of the 9000 Iraqis killed by the RAF bombs in 1920, one of the 6 times British oil interests have violated the people of Iraq in the last 86 years.
Common sense is genius in homespun.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory.
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.
I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time in Vietnam told me many storiesâbut none more chilling than the one from two helicopter pilots. They told me how they would shoot the friendlies on their way back from reconnaissance missions just so they could empty their ammunition before returning to base. The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. But to the American pilots, they were simply dots on the ground. Whitehead is a political conservative.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
