Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Allan Massie

Allan Massie - A question of loyalties (1989)

3 Sourced Quotes

View all Allan Massie Quotes
    • Source
    • Report...
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Allan Massie
    • Source
    • Report...
We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Allan Massie
    • Source
    • Report...
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

Allan Massie

Quote of the day

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Allan Massie

Allan Massie

Born: October 19, 1938 (age 86)
More about Allan Massie...

Featured Authors

Elizabeth I of EnglandAndré GideJean-Paul SartreDonald TrumpJane AustenMartin Luther King, Jr.Martin ScorseseLewis CarrollSteve JobsUmberto EcoCharles DarwinVirgil

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes