“Several premises shaped the Marshall Plan: that the gravest threat to western interests in Europe was not the prospect of Soviet military… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] most recent trip was to Sweden, where he commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. That had triggered one… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors.… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
“Fighting is in my very bones. I don't have any fancy, noble reason like anger at my fate. I'm just like a… — Nahoko Uehashi Copy Share Image
You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Life is not a battle that we have to keep fighting for everything, but about survival, make sure you help others survive… — Sanji-Paul Arvind Copy Share Image
“The gentle waters poured from the heavens, baptizing the two angels in a healing shower that washed away their differences, lifting the… — C.J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The Cold War is a psychological game, that is dangerous and counterproductive in the extreme - it does not lead to a… — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“During the early 1950s the hangman operating with the cold war troops was McCarthyism. For years it decimated social organizations, throttled free… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Love the battle between chaos and imagination. Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Remember: Acting is the way to live… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“Each day was a fight, but I gained strength from each battle; my mind became sharpened with each rejection; my soul became… — Charlena Jackson Copy Share Image
“The battle for the gospel in the opening years of the twenty-first century is being fought not primarily in the lecture rooms… — Brian Stanley Copy Share Image
“So why had he come? He'd said he'd had no choice, but for centuries men had chopped off their own limbs, faked… — Dominique Wilson Copy Share Image
Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Lyrically, 'Planets' is the precursor to 'Acid Rain'; it's about a meteoric, intergalactic war that results in an apocalypse and the human… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
With all the catastrophes that are going on, and all the hardships that are going on around the world, you don't do… — Gino Vannelli Copy Share Image
“Forgetting what it’s like to suffer can be a good thing, since suffering can make people too cutthroat for society’s good. But… — Ben Ryder Howe Copy Share Image
It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Purposely violating one’s oath of office to uphold the Constitution as the supreme law of the land is akin to levying war… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character… — Elie Ducommun Copy Share Image
It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“When first I saw it moving across the waves I readied myself, stood steadfast, armed for the battle ahead. But then as… — Casey Hill Copy Share Image
“War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched"… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me.… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
It's very important to understand that World War II is at the base of this new policy. From the 1890s on, the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
“Maybe that would be less crucial under Obama, Podesta thought, because Obama's approach was so intellectual. He compared Obama to Spock from… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Consider why Germany, fighting a war on two fronts, desperate for fuel and materiel of every sort, would bother to load millions… — Edgar Steele Copy Share Image
“It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,” I said, “that makes it damn nearly impossible for me to say anything. I’ve… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance,… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
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