I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“In preparing for battle, I have found that planning is essential, but plans are useless. - Dwight D. Eisenhower” — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.” — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. -Psalm lv. 21 — Bible Copy Share Image
A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888). — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the… — Natalia Tena Copy Share Image
There is no battle space the U.S. Military cannot access. They said we couldn't do Afghanistan. We did it with ease. They… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I find that with fantasy, you lose yourself in it a lot. It's great to be able to go into a dark… — Austin Butler Copy Share Image
…I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all… — Ali Vincent Copy Share Image
During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict. — Peter Mandelson Copy Share Image
There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There's no limit to what you can accomplish, but there's always someone one step ahead of you, so it's a constant uphill… — Catherine Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after… — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, mankind has been divided into three parts, among men of prayer, men of toil, and men of war. Gerard,… — John Paul Davis Copy Share Image
“Deep inside us all, there is a perpetual conflict between our urge to succeed and the fear of taking action. The trouble… — Majid Kazmi Copy Share Image
Bob Gates understands the difficulty of going to war. This is a man who spent almost his entire life working for the… — William M. Daley Copy Share Image
If I tap that little bell, I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark. — Edwin M. Stanton Copy Share Image
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