History teaches us that men ...

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
 Abba Eban

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
 Abba Eban
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
 Abba Eban
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
 Abba Eban
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
 Abba Eban
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.
 Abba Eban