The war in Iraq has been very, very expensive - partly because the Administration tried to keep the apparent costs down. But… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“that much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of these kinds of lopsided conflicts, because the act of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“I understand in retrospect that this was my first introduction to a conflict that dominates all our lives: the endless, irreconcilable conflict… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When you think of a leader, he's got to be fearless. You got to have them trust you, especially in the heat… — Geno Smith Copy Share Image
Nineteen people flew into the towers. It seems hard for me to imagine that we could go to war enough to make… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after… — Corey Stewart Copy Share Image
“You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“If something terrible happened – such as war, plague or drought – people consoled themselves that ‘We all play a role in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All at once, funding was gone due to the Mansfield Amendment, which was a reaction to the Vietnam War. In the minds… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming… — Questlove Copy Share Image
British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
“Today, by contrast, students explode over imagined slights that are not even remotely in the same category as fighting for civil rights… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
“In the presence of...civil war, to testify to humanity!...to prove that above royalties, above revolutions, above earthly questions, there is the immense… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A battle is like a deadly sort of dance, Lyss thought. We learn the steps by sparring in the practice yards, by… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
That's the number one thing for a guy for a new coach coming in. You've really got to buy into the system… — Andre Iguodala Copy Share Image
“Yes. Strangely enough, war has a way of absolving us of the mistakes we make while in its dreadful shadow, but it… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Gendemen, I have resolved never to make an unjust war, but to end a just one only with the utter ruin of… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
I remember the Korean War very well. And I remember the soldiers who were POWs who supposedly were "brainwashed," quote, unquote, who… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“It reminded him of history lessons back in the world beyond the manor, whenever World War II came up in the curriculum.… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
Unlike children in other countries, the Eskimos played no game of war. They played with imaginary rifles and harpoons, but these were… — Marie Herbert Copy Share Image
“Civil War generals began the war employing tactics from the Napoleonic Era, which saw Napoleon dominate the European continent and win crushing… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him his… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Only a war that serves no conceivable national interest gets the New York Time's endorsement. Liberals warm to the idea of American… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this… Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The historical significance of the fact that we were going out on a joint raid with German Special Operations was lost on… — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
“In this miasma of forgotten wars, torture and the war on terror, there are no easy answers, especially in the face of… — James Orbinski Copy Share Image
