Quotes by Senators

A bad peace is even worse than war.
Tacitus
People are afraid of the future of the unknown. If a man faces up to it and takes the dare of the future he can have some control over his destiny. That's an exciting idea to me better than waiting with everybody else to see what's going to happen.
John H. Glenn
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Tacitus
Candour and generosity unless tempered by due moderation lead to ruin.
Tacitus
The worst hatred is that of relatives.
Tacitus
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
Tacitus
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
James W. Fulbright
Where they make a desert they call it peace.
Tacitus
The worst hatred is that of relatives.
Tacitus
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
Tacitus
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
James W. Fulbright
Where they make a desert they call it peace.
Tacitus
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus
The more corrupt the state the more laws.
Tacitus
My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent.
Hartland de Montarville Molson
Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.
Tacitus
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Tacitus
If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
Tacitus
Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?
Roméo Dallaire
Many signs point to the fact that the youth of the Third World will no longer tolerate living in circumstances that give them no hope for the future. From the young boys I met in the demobilization camps in Sierra Leone to the suicide bombers of Palestine and Chechnya, to the young terrorists who fly planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we can no longer afford to ignore them. We have to take concrete steps to remove the causes of their rage, or we have to be prepared to suffer the consequences.
Roméo Dallaire
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus
Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace.
Roméo Dallaire
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus
If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to be inadequate or erroneous. But if they are held without an awareness of abstracting-if our mental maps are believed to be the territory-they are prejudices. As teachers or parents, we cannot help passing on to the young a certain amount of misinformation and error, however hard we may try not to. But if we teach them to be habitually conscious of the process of abstraction, we give them the means by which to free themselves from whatever erroneous notions we may have inadvertently taught them.
S.I. Hayakawa
The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.
Roméo Dallaire
I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.
Roméo Dallaire
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus
Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
Tacitus
Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.
S.I. Hayakawa
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.
S.I. Hayakawa
If we don't harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity for evil.
Roméo Dallaire
Rwanda will never ever leave me. It's in the pores of my body. My soul is in those hills, my spirit is with the spirits of all those people who were slaughtered and killed that I know of, and many that I didn't know. … Fifty to sixty thousand people walking in the rain and the mud to escape being killed, and seeing a person there beside the road dying. We saw lots of them dying. And lots of those eyes still haunt me, angry eyes or innocent eyes, no laughing eyes. But the worst eyes that haunt me are the eyes of those people who were totally bewildered. They're looking at me with my blue beret and they're saying, "What in the hell happened? We were moving towards peace. You were there as the guarantor" -- their interpretation -- "of the mandate. How come I'm dying here?" Those eyes dominated and they're absolutely right. How come I failed? How come my mission failed? How come as the commander who has the total responsibility-- We learn that, it's ingrained in us, because when we take responsibility it means the responsibility of life and death, of humans that we love.
Roméo Dallaire
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
Tacitus
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
Tacitus
It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
S.I. Hayakawa
Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
Tacitus
A bad peace is worse than war.
Tacitus
Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.
Roméo Dallaire
What should I get from books?” Alcide asked in French.That you are not alone — even along this broken tractor road. You need to know nothing else,” my father answered in French.
David Adams Richards
I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.
Roméo Dallaire
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
Tacitus