Anderson Cooper Quotes

The European Union is not unbreakable; something that is breakable is extremely valuable.

Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.

With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Humans are one another’s enemies

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Weakness and ambivalence lead to war

Weakness is provocation.

Weakness is provocative.

The Cold War, Bosnia and Ukraine remind us that peace is fragile. Iraq and Syria remind us that no society or culture is immune from conflict.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

Crazy gets all the knives.

You must hurt, or be hurt.

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

All that I am hangs by a thread tonight

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

Am I to assume you would rather not have us as clients?"
 "Let me think about that for a nanosecond," Dickie said. "Yes! Last time you were in my office you tried to kill me."
 "That's an exaggeration. Maim you, yes. Kill you, probably not."