Quotes About Impact

One just voice is greater than an army.

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.

One small boy was all it took to upset the universe

I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.

War isn't about making historywar is about breaking the present.

When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.

War's all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.

Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time's worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy but by God they frighten me.

She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.

You cannot change the past, but you can make a difference now

How many people you bless is how you measure success

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.