When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it's one of the least 'brave' or courageous modes of warfare ever invented.… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The hardest war to win is one you don’t even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
“Fugitive Peace (Sonnet 2219) In the opera of war, peace is fugitive - thinking soldiers are no good to state, either you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When are we going to attack? Why don’t we attack?’ were the questions you heard night and day from Spaniard and Englishman… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“So now the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and the weather is all messed up. Plants and animals… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
My parents, they grew up in a time when there was war in Korea. And my grandmother, her husband, my grandfather, was… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
“Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
I think people used to read 'War and Peace,' and now they don't; now they sit around with their tablets and watch… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Religion, with its metaphysical error of absolute guilt, dominated the broadest, the cosmic realm. From there, it infiltrated the subordinate realms of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“And thus, having been assured by Themis, the mother of the Fates,that it was fated that she & the God of War… — Nicholas Chong Copy Share Image
Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you're shady about it, when you're not transparent… — Sean Spicer Copy Share Image
Love is a shelter in a raging storm. Love is peace in the middle of a war, and if we try to… — Warren Barfield Copy Share Image
“The normalcy of it almost kills me. Even in a world turned upside down, a world of war and insanity, people hang… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Come all you mad and raging fearless friends of war and peace, Come all you sad self-righteous frightened friends down on your… — Butch Hancock Copy Share Image
...who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, who were expelled from… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Ahimsa is a comprehensive principle. We are helpless mortals caught in the conflagration of himsa. The saying that life lives on life… — Gandhi Copy Share Image
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
For even the most nurturing, devoted, loving stepfather has, with a stepdaughter, an uphill battle. The relationship can test the mettle of… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
“Bathed in shades of violet, she comes in the dark. Power unrecognized, half human, half mar. Born in lightning, anointed in tears,… — Tracy Deebs Copy Share Image
“It meant that the silently waged conflict between himself and his cleaning lady had escalated to a new and more frightening level.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“In a 2016 essay, the writer and former soldier Roy Scranton describes watching Star Wars while stationed in Baghdad. He is forced… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
“I am trying to become more than I have been up until now. I don't want to accept my existing limitations as… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
“Weale had joined the Scouts from the regular army within a few weeks of it being formed. The regiment’s ethos was inspired… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“You can lose any particular short-term battle of will, but if you give yourself dozens, hundreds, thousands of opportunities to improve with… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
I think he became a man who brought peace and wisdom to hi world, because he knew about war and folly. I… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
We should balance the budget. If government programs are important enough, we need to pay for them with taxes or make cuts… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
“Climate change is not just about melting icebergs, storm surges, floods, and droughts, according to Parenti. A warmer world will be more… — Linda Marsa Copy Share Image
As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
If you believe that this war will be decided on the home front, then you must believe that radio used as an… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image