“That was an ordinary way for a patriotic American to talk back then. It’s hard to believe how sick of war we… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Alice knows those stories. The routiers and condottieri of the Free Companies, who fight the wars of whichever prince will pay their… — Vanora Bennett Copy Share Image
“Eli: They say the war tore a hole in the sky,you've probably heard the stories. Solara: Yeah. Eli: The war tore a… — Book of Eli Movie Copy Share Image
If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Word of gloom from the war,one day; Johnston pressed at the front,they say. Little Giffen was up and away; A tearhis firstas… — Francis Orrery Ticknor Copy Share Image
“Carefully squeezing through the forest of adults that crowded the aisles, feeling like an intruder in a forbidden temple, he cautiously pushed… — C. Dean Andersson Copy Share Image
“During the Year of the Monkey, the press, which had hitherto generally supported the war or stuck to feel-good stories of heroism… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
Americans will forever be proud of the brave men and women of our armed forces who served in World War II, and… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
Yes, the rise in corporate power had roots in the gearing up for the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was a Whig, a… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
My father was a veteran. He fought in World War II. He was a patriot. On the other hand, he had no… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“There's atheism, and then there's anti-theism, know what I mean? Atheists don't believe in God, but they don't care if you do,… — Duncan Ralston Copy Share Image
“Even after the war, Eugenia, do you still put people into categories the way you were taught to do—rich and poor, socially… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not… — Rosalie Bertell Copy Share Image
“Corbulo: a name to conjure with, a name to follow into battle, wherever he led; a name to have a man marching… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
When I visited Guantanamo Bay several years ago, I met a team of psychiatrists treating the detainees. When I asked how they… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, unexpectedly, someone is using the ugly powers of war, which horrify me, to try to pull and drag me away from… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
“The face-off quickly escalated into an existential confrontation between the two sides of the White House—two sides on a total war footing.… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great danger, and in… — Norbert Jacques Copy Share Image
“Wars, for us, are either inevitable, or created. Whatever they are, they should not wholly vitiate art. What art needs is greater… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength. The war horse is… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
“Michael had taken over the Apollo cabin after Lee Fletcher died in battle last summer. Michael stood four-foot-six with another two feet… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“War reveals people's deeper nature.' 'I don't like that idea. It would suggest that we need to be put to the test.… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. As a civilian I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I see within you, young human. I see your soul at peace, and I see war at your fingertips. There is no… — Craig Martelle Copy Share Image
The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that,… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What kind of work would be done if Hercules took to spinning wool in safe places, while Omphales turned out to do… — Eliza Lynn Linton Copy Share Image
I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
“The man she had loved as a father was a fraud. He kissed the back of her hands and advocated war; he… — Anne Blankman Copy Share Image
The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
