You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

William Shakespeare

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

Leon Kass

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

Pierre de Coubertin

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

Cat Stevens

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.

Louis D. Brandeis

I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

Vince Neil

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

Trent Lott

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

Cofer Black

I asked her if she enjoys a cigarette after sex. She said...No, one drag is enough.

Rodney Dangerfield