It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns.… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“He closed by telling us the real battle is won in the mind. It’s won by guys who understand their areas of… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
But even as the fear racks my body, it soothes me, comforts me. Soldiers who get washed away in a rush of… — Hiroshi Sakurazaka Copy Share Image
And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“In April 1967, Johnson had dispatched General Creighton Abrams to Vietnam as Westy’s deputy. Abrams, a famous tank commander in World War… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“Authentic community will undoubtedly be marked by conflict, risk, and rejection. At the same time it offers the deepest levels of acceptance,… — David Timms Copy Share Image
But my point is that 'the death of God' is not something like the Battle of Waterloo or Magna Charta. It's not… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
The merging of the military-industrial complex, surveillance state and unbridled corporate power points to the need for strategies that address what is… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The rules of war and business are the same. Victory and success are the same. In one it's life and/or death in… — Richard Marcinko Copy Share Image
If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes… — Vishnudevananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill’s Marauders, the highly skilled… — Tom Mangold Copy Share Image
The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues… — Anohni Copy Share Image
We should all be aware of the fact that when revolutionary - not evolutionary - changes come, things can get even worse.… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Some of my good friends who were writers disappeared. Others are still inside Syria and there are others who are refugees. I'm… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have… — David Burnett Copy Share Image
I love 'The War Of The Roses,' especially as my husband is in it! I've often said to him it would be… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“It is often said that the invention of terrible weapons of destruction will put an end to war. That is an error.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in… — Pierre Curie Copy Share Image
What I also discovered was that, during the War, the whole of Europe had become a fortress. And thus I saw to… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the… — Thomas Malory Copy Share Image
The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“What I Will by Suheir Hammad I will not dance to your war drum. I will not lend my soul nor my… — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
“The Government set the stage economically by informing everyone that we were in a depression period, with very pointed allusions to the… — David J. Schow Copy Share Image
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“Our national jurisdictions are now bombarded by laws from outside, even though hardly any of these laws are concerned with the avoidance… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I had been conscious of depression and so I voiced to (Sec. Of War Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
