Missiles Quotes

“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.”

“For DeHaven it was well worth the extra money to a federal budget that had always allocated more to war than it ever did to peaceful purposes. For a fraction of the cost of one missile he could purchase on the open market every work the library needed to round out its rare books collection. Yet politicians believed that missiles kept you safe, whereas actually books did, and for a simple reason. Ignorance caused wars, and people who read widely were seldom ignorant.”

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

“We violated each other’s boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of “just kidding.”

“The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.”

“Um. Ways in which a sentence beginning with the word "missiles" could be a good thing... Nope. I got nuthin'.”

“Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.”

“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

“We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?”