War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam,… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses,… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war,… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls… — David W Augsburger Copy Share Image
We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke.… — Ashleigh Banfield Copy Share Image
“In fact, while we read a novel, we are insane – bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Life has a funny way of creating its own tests. It throws curve balls that make you do and think and feel… — K.A. tucker Copy Share Image
War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading,… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
“...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but… — John Fund Copy Share Image
All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A successful special operation defies conventional wisdom by using a small force to defeat a much larger or well-entrenched opponent. This book… — William H. McRaven Copy Share Image
There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“Disenchanted with the direction of modern America, they launched an ambitious, privately financed war of ideas to radically change the country. They… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“If it would help humanity or the course of the War by so much as one iota, I would gladly sit all… — Louise Dickinson Rich Copy Share Image
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Don’t you see the inevitability of this moment? I mean we’re talking serious process here, man. The perfect critic stepping forth from… — Lucius Shepard Copy Share Image
For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the… — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God’s… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Antisemitism did not begin in Germany, or anywhere else, in 1918; Jews had been regarded as dangerous outsiders for centuries, and anti-Jewish… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
“There was always someone outside of the chalk circle. Someone who needed money, someone who had a son with whooping cough, or… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Say something, Jess. Say anything. And just when I'm about to think of what I should say next, my mouth goes into… — Anne Eliot Copy Share Image
“There are many ties that bind, and as many walls that divide. Music and madness. Love and unending time. Race and war.… — Nancy Young Copy Share Image
This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image