After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“There had been as many plagues in the world as there had been wars, yet plagues and wars always find people equelly… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Right," said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He could do this. He'd survived boot camp. He'd survived combat and the harsh weather of Afghanistan. He could survive broccoli. Probably.” — Shannon Stacey Copy Share Image
The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We… — Thomas Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“World wars have been fought and lost; for every war is against the world and every war against the world is lost.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war. — George Montagu Copy Share Image
Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world,… — Julia Louis-Dreyfus Copy Share Image
“The war between the centrifuge of knowledge and the centripetal pull of power remains the prime conflict in all economies. Reconciling the… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Their history is largely a record of crime, war, disease, and terror, with just sufficient happiness interposed to give them, while it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of… — Alice Winocour Copy Share Image
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
I'm asked that a lot: 'James, is there really a continuing spiritual renaissance occurring on this planet? Look at all the conflict,… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began in England, and the gifts of science… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than the executioners and more numerous… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence… — David Frum Copy Share Image
There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If you're going through a flame war, stop, drop, and roll with the punches. In time, people will move on and you'll… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
“Every day I feel more like some defeated matador limping out of the arena after I've been gored, or like some general… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
“That is something we must never forget; although others may show heroism in the war or against the Germans, our helpers display… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ...… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's what I got the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work… — Ted Conover Copy Share Image
“You can’t plan wars, don’t know how to cook, and refuse to write love letters,” I teased.” — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“Thus conflict behavior that is heavily influenced by hostility is often damaging to the actor’s own long-range interests” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thomas looked around and tried not to let his duty turn him bitter. These were good men, and he would not leave… — Jessica Fortunato Copy Share Image
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
For a Jewish mother, having a country wage war on your son is the worst. If Kim Jong-un only knew what he… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image