Expendable Quotes

Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way. (Ani DiFranco)
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly. View quote
John Pilger
From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable. View quote
Jimmy Reid
That will happen... when all of us who are slightly privileged and slightly uneasy begin to see that we are like the guards in the prison uprising at Attica - expendable; that the Establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain its control, kill us. View quote
Howard Zinn
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am in the position of a pilot without his checklist, so I'll have to wing it a bit. ... [Prior to the Apollo missions, ] no one knew what kind of person could be persuaded to take the trip. Prisoners were suggested. Soldiers could be ordered. Photographers could take pictures - and they're expendable. Doctors understood the limits of human physiology. Finally, both sides picked pilots. View quote
Neil Armstrong
I say bomb the hell out of them. If there's collateral damage, so be it. They certainly found our civilians to be expendable. View quote
Zell Miller
In the long run, the most vicious predators, like most dread disease-causing microbes, bring about their own ruin by killing their victims. Restrained predation-the attack that doesn't kill or does kill only slowly-is a recurring theme in evolution. The predatory precursors of mitochondria invaded and exploited their hosts, but the prey resisted. Forced to be content with an expendable part of the prey (its waste)... some mitochondria precursors grew but never killed their providers. ...The original prey was probably a larger bacterium like Thermoplasma. View quote
Lynn Margulis
Conceiving the defense of freedom, like freedom itself, to be one and indivisible, we hold all continents and peoples in equal regard and honor. We reject any insinuation that one race or another, one people or another, is in any sense inferior or expendable. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think my experience as an adoptee who was given beautiful, loving parents, makes me sympathetic to the plight of the voiceless and those who are disregarded or tossed away or thought to not have value in a society. I feel like no one is expendable because it's convenient. So many animals out there without homes have so much love to give, and I want to do all I can to get them in forever homes so they can give that love. ... Fostering a little life is so humbling and sacred. It reminds you we're all here to help each other and that you're not the central character in the story of life. You're a supporting role and your hands are meant to help get someone or something where they should be. Helping and loving an animal is the greatest gift you can give yourself. Every time you save them, you save yourself a little bit, too. View quote
Bellamy Young
I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Men are expendable; women and children are not. (Robert A. Heinlein)
All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. View quote
Ted Williams
Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable. View quote
Phil McGraw
To be a simple animal like my father, untroubled by consciousness, or conscience. To sleep soundly, at east with your certainties, men as expendable as beef. View quote
Philipp Meyer
We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
"I assume I'm expendable, sir." "You're a soldier, aren't you? Of course you're expendable!" Sharpe was still smiling. He was a soldier, and a lady needed recuing, and was that not what soldiers throughout history had done? View quote
Bernard Cornwell
some men know from birth that they are expendable... they fought to won. If you did not win, you did not run either. View quote
Alice Borchardt
All world-images are apt to become corrupt when left to ecclesiastic bureaucracies. But this does not make the formation of world-images expendable. View quote
Erik Erikson
mktg case study #9: mktg lies OCCASIONALLY, JUST OF COURSE, YOUR COMPANY WILL BE CAUGHT IN A LIE. THIS IS NOT GOOD. IF POSSIBLE, IMMEDIATELY FIRE SOMEONE EXPENDABLE AND PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE. IF NOT, YOU MUST STICK TO THE LIE. PERCEPTION IS REALITY. View quote
Max Barry
All world-images are apt to become corrupt when left to ecclesiastic bureaucracies. But this does not make the formation of world-images expendable. And I can only repeat that we deny the remnants of old-world images at our own risk, because we do not overcome them by declaring them - with all the righteousness of skepticism - something of a secret sin. They are not less powerful for being denied. (Erik Erikson)