“Whenever a regular army finds itself engaged upon hostilities against irregular forces, or forces which in their armament, their organization, and their… — Charles Edward Callwell Copy Share Image
Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when… — George Blagden Copy Share Image
This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
You know, I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the… — Michael Richards Copy Share Image
In a world where the latest app can sell for billions of dollars, there are plenty of ways to provide a minimum… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I want to break up the Wall Street banks. Hillary Clinton doesn't. I want to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR was extraordinarily diverse. The Eastern Front, where 90 percent of all Germans killed in combat met their fate,… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used to put the war in warm. Just paint the blanket like an American flag, and then try… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I'm worried about who's gossiping about what to whom. I'm constantly worried if any petty, stubborn redneck hicks are "listening" to our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button.… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
The biggest budget is the military budget. For what? We're fighting two wars in very small countries that have no nuclear weapons,… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the Ku Klux Klans… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The U.S. does not want to live under the shadow of a North Korea that possesses long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
“So a war begins. Into a peace-time life, comes an announcement, a threat. A bomb drops somewhere, potential traitors are whisked off… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“To Polyakov it was as though a fierce wind from downstream was sweeping up the Volga. Several times he was knocked off… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Why build… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned is to be much more open about my frailties and about our failures, because when you… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“...it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“Showing up when violence wounds a community is what love looks like in public. Loving first, with our presence instead of only… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
I hope we don't lose in America this demand that those of us who want this office must be prepared not to… — Walter H Pater Copy Share Image
You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned… — George Armstrong Custer Copy Share Image
“It would take either a full-scale slave rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a deeply entrenched system. If a rebellion,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
She really liked you before. It was a bright future for you and her, you were the one that she adored. She… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons.… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“It came to him in the night sometimes with a sudden appalling shock that the boys he was fighting were boys he… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
“On Earth, humankind can step onto another continent, and without a thought, destroy the kindred civilizations found there through warfare and disease.… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
FDR, JFK, LBJ [all Democratic presidents ] we have a pretty long list of presidents who maybe were not entirely forthcoming with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image