It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it,the less will be the… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“I do not think that hour there told me anything I could not have imagined myself, but being there, in that silence,… — Jennifer Lynch Copy Share Image
Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“For many years in Cuba, nobody spoke of the problem between blacks and whites. It was considered too disagreeable to discuss. But… — Cristina García Copy Share Image
When we look at how, constitutionally, only Congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. Not NATO or the UN, but… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
“Only a small number of warriors articulated hopes more ambitious than those for personal survival. One of these was a British officer… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Ciba: "I thought you were supposed to be some big brave war hero. What about that goddamn gold star you polish every… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Let's look at this rationally...We've got a doctor who may kill him, an Attorney General who wants to declare him bananas, and… — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
“Then, having accomplished what he wanted to do, Eros decided to stop the futile battle. He recalled Phobos & Deimos from Mars… — Nicholas Chong Copy Share Image
Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
“There's a strange contradiction revealed by the naivete and kindness demonstrated by humanity when faced with the universe: On Earth, humankind can… — Cixin Liu Copy Share Image
“Many will argue that there is nothing remotely spiritual in combat. Consider this. Mystical or religious experiences have four common components: constant… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Frankly, if you're 26 years old and there's a war on women or there's not a war on women, you can get… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“People loved this religious stuff because it actually made no sense. Just like the war made no sense. And she knew now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are to vigorously and violently demolish all the fortifications of the foe, winning the battle and talking him captive for Christ.… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right… — C. Vann Woodward Copy Share Image
If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as… — John Dingell Copy Share Image
“Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I don't think he fully analyzes the situation. If you destabilize [Bashar] Assad and punish Assad, you do embolden terrorists. You embolden… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“As we watched, the regulations imposed by our government, churches, and press; combined to establish our country’s new internal warfare. Fought on… — James W. Scott Copy Share Image