“A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions Una, a brilliant fifteen-year-old,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in… — Hermann Goering Copy Share Image
“In nuclear war, except for the evil forces, no one is a winner. Science and humanity become the villains. Everyone knows that,… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“THIS IS THE STORY of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bathrooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment.… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Deep down, I have come to the conclusion that the reason (children) are such a low priority to the great human institutions… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
“After the removal era initiated officially in 1830 and the Seminole Wars of the 1840s, most Americans had the misperception that not… — Mark Edwin Miller Copy Share Image
“Putin’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t a staring contest. It’s a land grab, the first of this scale since World War II. But… — Katy Tur Copy Share Image
It may come as a surprise but I also really started to get into history while I was at school. I found… — Rory McIlroy Copy Share Image
After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
“Although the final battle is yet to come, Jesus already reigns in the hearts of believers. We have the King of kings… — Dianne Neal Matthews Copy Share Image
“To address this, we must wage a war on the militants. First, we must make it an offence, punishable by many years… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
“Asymmetries in hedonic and instrumental consequences can also lead to the formation and maintenance of beliefs that can have more serious consequences,… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“Charlotte was used to all the marks of war: the shabbiness of things, bad food, shop queues, posters about the war effort,… — Penelope Farmer Copy Share Image
President Bush bet his presidency-and America's world leadership-on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than… — Mort Kondracke Copy Share Image
There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“Sir, you think doubtless that all is for the best in the moral and physical world, and that nothing could be otherwise… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Wars have a way of overriding the days just before them. In the looking back, there is such noise and gravity. But… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
As an observer, you can clearly see that Western countries are war-weary and don't want to be pulled into new conflicts. They… — Ronald Lauder Copy Share Image
“It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“...the weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water...To cap our woe, there was no means… — Leonce Patry Copy Share Image
I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
[Malcolm Subban] is probably winning the battle cause we had a couple skates together and I didn't score too much on him.… — P. K. Subban Copy Share Image
Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“She was going to be okay. I knew she was. She had forever changed my life and I had changed hers. I… — Anna Aquino Copy Share Image
As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would… — George Tenet Copy Share Image
“His feeling of having crashed did not consist of envy, exactly, or even entirely of having outlived himself. It was more like… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“And what other kind of man would you want leading you into battle?” he says, reading my Noise. “What other kind of… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make;… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
We have a long and proud tradition as a nation of investing in our human capital so that we can build a… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation,… — Judith Hand Copy Share Image
“So tell us," says Connor, "in The World According to Hayden, when do we start to live?" A long silence from Hayden,… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
“War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
“You don’t get it, babe,” he said, still looking at the sky. “World War III already started.” She propped herself up on… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
“Remember, you don’t have to be mighty in stature to be mighty in battle. You don’t have to be beautiful or strong,… — Susie Larson Copy Share Image
America and the world have been great beneficiaries of the forward presence of the United States Navy around the globe since the… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image