Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One of the beautiful parts about Hamilton is it takes these figures that we've always revered as figures of antiquity and there's… — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find… — John Bradley-West Copy Share Image
“He took up her stiff head out of the leaves and held it or he reached to hold what cannot be held,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“It was nearly impossible to keep anything a secret, especially from her sisters, the youngest of whom—Hyacinth—could probably have won the war… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“THE ABUSER’S PROBLEM IS NOT THAT HE RESPONDS INAPPROPRIATELY TO CONFLICT. HIS ABUSIVENESS IS OPERATING PRIOR TO THE CONFLICT: IT USUALLY CREATES… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
“Oh, diplomacy," said M.D., in his element, "it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We have come to know how nuclear weapons can destroy societies and human civilization. We have not yet begun to understand how… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote,… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Whether the struggle was between English merchants and the American colonies, pre Civil War northern manufacturers vs. southern slave holders, or American… — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
“By my twenty-second birthday, you know, I had killed eight men. Eight that I was certain of, eight that I could plainly… — Marcus Brotherton Copy Share Image
A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII,… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“The resistance within law enforcement to the drug war created something of a dilemma for the Reagan administration. In order for the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only as long as… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as… — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be… — Lawrence B. Lindsey Copy Share Image
“Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform… — Robert Buettner Copy Share Image
One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives.… — Arun Manilal Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Our heart calls us one way, the mind pulls us the other way, and we do the opposite. We cannot find peace… — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact:… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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