I really wanted to make a nonpolitical political film. I wanted something that folks in red states and blue states could look… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
“During an hour-long conversation mid-flight, he laid out his theory of the war. First, Jones said, the United States could not lose… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
“Many of the most obvious conflicts between science and religion involve timing issues—the dating of events in Earth’s history. Bible chronologies typically… — David Barker Copy Share Image
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5)… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“A misunderstanding of the Laws of the Universe is at the heart of this conversation as the people of your society wage… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle’s sake with your… — Meera Uberoi Copy Share Image
“These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another… — William T. Sherman Copy Share Image
I am worried because I'm hearing some of the same signals about Iran and its nuclear program that were heard as the… — David Kay Copy Share Image
“What is this peace, different from that which the world gives? This peace is the one your love gives... a peace greater… — Charles de Foucauld Copy Share Image
The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Dear comrade in arms, after 15 years of battles, persecutions and sacrifices, Romania's youth must know that the hour of the Legionaire… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
“THE GERMANS AND THE DOG were engaged in a military operation which had an amusingly self-explanatory name, a human enterprise which is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There's the old saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
“On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“This was a glimpse through that mysterious door, once shut, that now seemed to stand ajar. It was as if sounds of… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as closure for soldiers who have survived a war. They have an obligation, a sacred duty, to… — Harold G. Moore Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“Marines do not hesitate in combat. If the Corps has a defining philosophy, that’s it. In war, when the enemy is foolish… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“Sweden’s position of neutrality during World War II put the country in the position of not defending its neighbors against German invasion.… — Christina Johansson Robinowitz Copy Share Image
“In the upper echelons of the Church, the authoritarian and anti-liberal elements within fascism resonated with those – and they included Pius… — Christopher Duggan Copy Share Image
There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
We don't call war hell because it is fought without restraint. It is more nearly right to say that, when certain restraints… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
“A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and… — Nancy Goldstone Copy Share Image
“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides of a question to worry him; give him one.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy War, and the orators who talk so much about… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles… — Michael K. Simpson Copy Share Image
All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The return journey was nothing like the arrival. Bea couldn’t wait to get out of the car. She remembered feeling like this… — Tracey-anne McCartney Copy Share Image
While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
You read in any war stories - World War II, whatever - that there are many, many heroes. There are the main… — Dave Filoni Copy Share Image
It's a class war, and a war on young people too... that's why tuition is rising so rapidly. There's no real economic… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I never felt in competition with anybody in war photography. You're lucky to get your ass in and out again. It's as… — David Douglas Duncan Copy Share Image
If you do believe in science, you really have to actually stand up and make a stand for it. You can't just… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
