The perfect war is started ...

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
 Errol Morris

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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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The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory.
 Errol Morris
I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
 Errol Morris
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
 Errol Morris
I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and we've been there ever since. My son is now twenty-nine years old, so we've been up there for a while.
 Errol Morris
A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
 Errol Morris