Missile Quotes (4 quotes)

“The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the trajectory of a gauss round.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

tags: gauss, missile, morality, morals, realist

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“There was no sign of life round the domed emplacement of the Moonraker, and the concrete, already beginning to shimmer in the early morning sun, stretched emptily away towards Deal. It looked like a newly laid aerodome or rather, he thought, with its three disparate concrete 'things', the beehive dome,the flat-iron blast-wall, and the distant cube of the firing point, each casting black pools of shadow towards him in the early sun, like a Dali desert landscape in which three objets trouves reposed at carefully calculated random.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

tags: art, dali, missile, weapon

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“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

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“Based on his experience, he has come to believe that the drone program amounts to little more than death by unreliable metadata. "People get hung up that there's a targeted list of people," he said. "It's really like we're targeting a cell phone. We're not going after people – we're going after their phones, in the hopes that the person on the other end of that missile is the bad guy.”
― Jeremy Scahill, The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program

tags: drone-attacks, drones, metadata, missile, terrorism

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