“A skeptic of all sentimentality, she has a witty, rueful voice that gives a deadpan appraisal of the past and present. We… — Ron Charles Copy Share Image
“During the Cold War, widespread alcoholism was always seen in the West as evidence that life under Communism was so dismal that… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had… — Thurston Clarke Copy Share Image
My wife says, "You're an idiot! Why do you Google your name and all you're doing is looking for trouble?" Because I'm… — Buzz Bissinger Copy Share Image
I'm enthralled by the national yearning that the Russians had during the 50s and 60s. The whole century was pretty rough for… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
“We are not called to fight the battles of our fathers with a blind faith. We are called to examine their wars,… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Every year, the United Nations General Assembly votes on a resolution entitled 'Peaceful resolution of the Palestine conflict.' Every year, the vote… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama,… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, conflicts have always been there and they don't seem to be stopping. I'm a journalist and a photojournalist at heart, and… — Shaul Schwarz Copy Share Image
War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
“There is hell and there is war. The two are difficult to distinguish, but hopefully you’ll never know the sting of either.… — Sarah Domet Copy Share Image
I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the… — Johnny Colt Copy Share Image
It's an uphill battle to help our kids learn to make good food decisions - particularly when they are too often presented… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
I say, "go 'head Donald Trump bring it on" because this is the war to end all wars. No warmonger will live… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“It was no longer a question of the Union as it was , that was to be reestablished; it was the Union… — Régis de Trobriand Copy Share Image
Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“Thousands of American soldiers bring the images of a war home with them. This public witness keeps America’s citizenry and policymakers aware… — James McCartney Copy Share Image
All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Amazon lot are perfectly reasonable, level-headed people who just want to make TV programmes. I don't think they are the enemy… — James May Copy Share Image
“If their social institutions were abhorrent, their unwritten constitution bordered upon the absurd. The absolutist monarchs of the ancient kingdoms of Amara… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises:… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
On the whole, my family had always adopted a reserved attitude toward Zionism; my great-uncle Edmond had acted on his own in… — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of… — Edmond Taylor Copy Share Image
There are no women in these ground combat jobs.Women, of course, have been flying combat missions in fighter jets, attack helicopters, for… — Renee Montagne Copy Share Image
The cry of "Make America Great Again" reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...]… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“While technically Maryland remained in the Union during the Civil War, it was the border state, a schizophrenic no-man’s-land with the North… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
There is a radical and unprecedented shift [in war] that is part of the general transformation of civilization. First, understand that the… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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