I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds… — John Olver Copy Share Image
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in the twilight,… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“He who fights on a foreign soil another man's war Not for his family or his country's honor And, when he lies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beauty is the enemy, we try to conquer not feeling beautiful all over lives. its a battle that cant be won. There's… — Someone I Know Copy Share Image
In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art, identifies this reluctance. He calls it resistance. He writes, “There is a force resisting… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN]… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to love, but… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Obviously, everyone knows it is hard to hang it up, but I'm definitely going to try and do it the right way… — Ben Askren Copy Share Image
The E.U. is the latest of a series of multinational organizations set up after World War II to ensure that there would… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“War, for all its evil, is at any rate an unanswerable test of strength, like a try-your-grip machine. Great strength returns the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
'Women's' war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“his coven’s territory? It made his coven look bad—worse than bad. It made them look defenseless. The entire vampire race would convene… — Morgan Rice Copy Share Image
“Voters have soaked up a noggin full of negativity over the last twenty years, with an economy we had to bring back… — Peter Prasad Copy Share Image
We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
“Many of the most heroic deeds of the war were performed by small, isolated groups of soldiers, unaware of the situation, without… — Robert E. Merriam Copy Share Image
“Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A CIA report completed in 1968 found similarly: “The war and the bombing have eroded the North Vietnamese economy, making the country… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
“Axsem would say nothing more to any of them. No sooner had Fallon released him than he fled deep into the trees,… — S.R. Ford Copy Share Image
Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives,… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
“A few names were known in full, some in part, some not at all. No one cared. Except in clearly unreasonable cases,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
We need to be much more far thinking in this new 21st century era of - of nation state failures and conflict.… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you’re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When it comes to morality, I'd rather have an unfaithful president like Bill Clinton, who tried to reform welfare, than a faithful… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
“So she’s just a mad woman?” Jackaby hesitated, and when he spoke, his answer had a soft earnestness to it. “Hatun sees… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
“The Spaniards are good at many things, but not at making war. All foreigners are alike appalled by their inefficiency, above all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
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