Tom ClancyBeing a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.361Philosophy
Tom ClancyThe control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you… ▶362HumanityPolitics
Tom ClancyHelicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.341Humor
Tom ClancyIn battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line. ✨ King Of The 'Techno-thriller' by Patrick A… ▶374Time
Tom ClancyThe only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really c… ▶353Time
Tom ClancySuccess will ruin your life. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.321Life
Tom ClancyI am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.343Politics
Tom ClancyI was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? ✨ Vonnegut and Clancy on Te… ▶365Humanity
Tom ClancyMost things in here don't react well to bullets.344Sadness
Tom ClancyWhat the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else. ✨ Kudlow & Cramer Interview, September 02, … ▶311HumanityPolitics
Tom ClancyI understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are importan… ▶366ThoughtTime
Tom ClancyChrist, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full explanation. Different segments of the organism called Joh… ▶334Thought
Tom ClancyAbout forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against… ▶379HumanityTruth
Tom ClancySwitzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.324Politics
Tom ClancyThe difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.302Truth
Tom ClancyWe cannot fail to win unless we fail to try. ✨ Tom Clancy (2010). Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, p.691, Penguin336Humor
Tom ClancyIt is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly. ✨ Tom Clancy (1992). The Hunt for Red October, p.158, Penguin303Truth
Tom ClancyThe U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our … ▶336HumanityTimeTruth
Tom ClancyThe point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place. ✨ Tom Clancy (1990). Clear and Present Danger, p.218, Penguin271LifeTime
Tom ClancyThere are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.293Death
Tom ClancyThere are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves. ✨ Tom Clancy (1994). Without Remorse, p.180, Penguin305Humanity
Tom ClancyThe human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that. ✨ Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology. Interview with Sarah Schafer, ww… ▶327Humanity
Tom ClancyIf you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.338Reading
Tom ClancyI just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.349Reading
Tom ClancyThe Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read ✨ FaceBook post byTom Clancy from Mar 11, 2014284Reading
Tom ClancyThe good old days are now. ✨ Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology. Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.306Sadness
Tom ClancyI've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part. ✨ The New York Times, July 27, 1986.284Time
Tom ClancyCourage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.263Life
Tom ClancyBooks and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.252Reading
Tom ClancyBack in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable tel… ▶329Reading
