WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Den Beste, Steven – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Den Beste, Steven -- U.S.S. Clueless (1 Sep. 2002) https://wist.info/den-beste-steven/353/ https://wist.info/den-beste-steven/353/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=353 I’m not a big one for “my nation, right or wrong.” I’ve always been extremely uneasy with the argument that “might makes right”. But sometimes my nation is right, and sometimes might is the correct answer. Sometimes when the entire world condemns you all it proves is that they value different things. What’s good for them may not be good for us. War is bad, but sometimes all the alternatives are worse.


Steven Den Beste (d. 2016) American essayist, engineer
U.S.S. Clueless (1 Sep. 2002)

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