It's quite a traumatic thing for a lot of our veterans that come back... You're in a war zone, you're dodging IED's… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
“He looked around the room: the light from outside was laying a big pattern across Goody’s bed and hitting this little rug… — Jeff Arch Copy Share Image
My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
“It's the Black Sea in a midnight gale.—It's the unnatural combat of the four primal elements.—It's a blasted heath.— It's a Hyperborean… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I understand now why they break into convents, force women against their will, defy sanctuary to finish the killing chase. They arouse… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“This book is a story about the Vietnam War and illustrates what a mess of a war it was for all involved.… — Rick DeStefanis Copy Share Image
“Console yourself not with the lie that your foe is weak, or stupid, or evil. Sometimes the enemy is worthy. Sometimes his… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
When you hear the ex-politician tell you that the reason they created the War on Drugs was to get black people and… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
We need to end our country's counterproductive regime change war policies that have undermined our national security, destroyed so many countries, and… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
“It’s just a reminder that war favors the rich. The ones who can leave, do. The ones who can’t, suffer.” Kiva was… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
There's going to be a lot of remedies. [Donald Trump] is also subject to other conflicts laws.The bribery laws are intended to… — Norman L. Eisen Copy Share Image
“The busy 20th and 21st centuries have made Garfield's era seem remote and irrelevant, its leaders ridiculed for their very obscurity... to… — Kenneth D. Ackerman Copy Share Image
War at home is matched by a war on youth. I wrote about this recently. Young people graduate with an average of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“What's the big idea?" Sabrina demanded. "I declared war on you, remember?" Puck said. Sabrina rolled her eyes. "Is this another one… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
“Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I’m sure that this is equally true of men in the business world or any world. We all need someone with inner… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Never mind gas masks and fallout shelters in the event of biological warfare. Many New Yorkers move from place to place equipped… — Isabel Lopez Copy Share Image
“I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I… — Teresa R. Funke Copy Share Image
“In his combination of earnestness, social conscience, and willingness to scrap, he was a perfect hero for 1943, as America went about… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“This wasn’t how they talked. They threw things at each other. Insults, jokes, sometimes even remotes. They made war and made peace… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“As the map of the Great Plain was being redrawn by a young Shazarian councillor, the ageing Shylonian king interrupted mid-speech to… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear… — Mike Gravel Copy Share Image
It is good that since the outbreak of the war with Japan, more and more revolutionary writers have been coming to Yan'an...… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It… — Eugene Puryear Copy Share Image
It's time for some equal-opportunity accountability. Without it, the fight against media misogyny will continue to be perceived as a proxy war… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
Female service members are so integrated into the military, so critical and vital to all functions of the military, from combat service… — Tammy Duckworth Copy Share Image
As a planet, we are at risk of destruction (for example, gradually by the warming of the planet; or rapidly, by nuclear… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
In the American constitutional system of three different branches, conflict - and I mean that peaceful, vigorous debate - it's a feature… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“[The Mexican war made three presidential candidates, Scott, Taylor and Pierce—and any number of aspirants for that high office. It made also… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation.… — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
“The brain doesn’t like conflict and works hard to resolve it. This may be one reason why, when we gather with like-minded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image