It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make Star Wars, but I need… — Edward Burns Copy Share Image
In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place,… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
“War would linger with me long after it had ended, some invisible scar that would perhaps face, but never wholly vanish. But… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
I can't rightly say where deciding to write about the American Revolution came from; I had bits and pieces of information about… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts -… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity,… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“Now, during our catastrophically idiotic war in Vietnam, the music kept getting better and better and better. We lost that war, by… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
I think people would be up in arms. I think we would most likely have a similar situation to what happened in… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
“Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Many a frozen night, and merrily Answered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
I was a promiscuous reader. I loved Nancy Drew books and Tom Swift - never the Hardy Boys - but I also… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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When I went to Harvard Law School I became interested in the connection between legal standards for safety and automobile engineering design.… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“In addition to involving the nation in an unauthorized war in Libya that empowered jihadist enemies of the United States, he and… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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Victories are gained through battles. This is the essence of the commandment love your enemy. There is no real enemy, for even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I… — George Jung Copy Share Image
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The truth is Mr. Trump could simply sit in the Oval Office for four years like a potted plant, and that would… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
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Wall Street banks have used the same tactic that Bush used in the war on terror - fear - and they've basically… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "Englandexpects… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image