Everybody knows how complicated this country's relationship with France has been, in war and in peace. Certainly there have been times when… — Kimberley Strassel Copy Share Image
See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
The sinking of the Lusitania wasn't the proximal cause for the U.S. entering WWI. It was almost two years between the sinking… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
Donald Trump called for the closing of borders to Muslims; John McCain said, in response to the President's address on the San… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Voters have soaked up a noggin full of negativity over the last twenty years, with an economy we had to bring back… — Peter Prasad Copy Share Image
We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
“War, for all its evil, is at any rate an unanswerable test of strength, like a try-your-grip machine. Great strength returns the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Obviously, everyone knows it is hard to hang it up, but I'm definitely going to try and do it the right way… — Ben Askren Copy Share Image
The E.U. is the latest of a series of multinational organizations set up after World War II to ensure that there would… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“his coven’s territory? It made his coven look bad—worse than bad. It made them look defenseless. The entire vampire race would convene… — Morgan Rice Copy Share Image
'Women's' war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives,… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
“Axsem would say nothing more to any of them. No sooner had Fallon released him than he fled deep into the trees,… — S.R. Ford Copy Share Image
“A few names were known in full, some in part, some not at all. No one cared. Except in clearly unreasonable cases,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Many of the most heroic deeds of the war were performed by small, isolated groups of soldiers, unaware of the situation, without… — Robert E. Merriam Copy Share Image
“Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
“A CIA report completed in 1968 found similarly: “The war and the bombing have eroded the North Vietnamese economy, making the country… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds… — John Olver Copy Share Image
The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in the twilight,… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Today, our world is more interconnected than ever. This offers many opportunities; it creates wealth and new freedoms. Yet our world is… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
“It simply was not possible to locate all the war criminals and remove all compromised leaders from positions of power, intern them,… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to love, but… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN]… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“He who fights on a foreign soil another man's war Not for his family or his country's honor And, when he lies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art, identifies this reluctance. He calls it resistance. He writes, “There is a force resisting… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Beauty is the enemy, we try to conquer not feeling beautiful all over lives. its a battle that cant be won. There's… — Someone I Know Copy Share Image
In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
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