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Security quotes of the weekSecurity quotes of the weekPosted Sep 13, 2012 9:47 UTC (Thu) by micka (subscriber, #38720)Parent article: Security quotes of the week
> "Never again." It is as simplistic as it is absurd. It is as vague as it is damaging. No two words have provided so little meaning or context;
Probably not while talking about accident or terrorism (episodic). I suppose the original use of this catchphrase, from WWI veterans, was very meaningful to them.
Well, I admit it wasn't that meaningful not even a generation later
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Security quotes of the week Posted Sep 13, 2012 11:17 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] Here's how the German poet, Günter Kunert, put it in 1948: When the manHad been pulled from the rubble Of his bombed house He shook himself And said: Never again. At least not at once.
Security quotes of the week Posted Sep 16, 2012 0:53 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] More than 60 years later we are still (mostly) at peace with each other here in Europe. It didn't work for the WWI generation but it worked beautifully after WWII.
Security quotes of the week Posted Sep 20, 2012 1:07 UTC (Thu) by nickbp (subscriber, #63605) [Link]
And all that it took was a divided continent for 45 of those years.
Security quotes of the week Posted Sep 23, 2012 11:28 UTC (Sun) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]
You forget the Balkan wars (after Yugoslavia dissolved), and of course also the "civil wars" in the UK (Northern Ireland), France, Spain, Portugal, etc. And the uproars in e.g. Czechoslovakia during the "Eastern Block" period.
Of course the area covered by the EU has been quite safe (outside of certain "internal wars").
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