...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Richard Dreyfuss, when we were doing 'American Graffiti,' was pumping me to vote for McGovern. But I think I wound up going… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“You say glory, necessity, pride; I say barbarity, greed, arrogance. War is a search for glory, for that particular sense of joy… — Laura M. Hughes Copy Share Image
“I’m lying on a Star Wars bedspread,” said a dry voice behind them, “Will I ever be able to look myself in… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
“The Beast may win a battle, the Mastermind may win a war, but only those able to adapt to change will stand… — J.M. Cataffo Copy Share Image
“You might be physically taking part in battle, but you're not really there. Something's missing. I'm sure the same goes for your… — Project Itoh Copy Share Image
“The literature of war and its strategies is poverty-stricken. Of all the men who have written on the subject of war, I… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“Unlike Kate, by then I’d had a job. In fact, I’d had sixteen jobs, not including the years I worked as a… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“believers fight each other over the correct interpretation and even kill members of their own faiths in battles over doctrine. Civilization has… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In order to hand me over she had to detach herself from herself, and afterward she never managed to get back inside… — emuna elon Copy Share Image
Wray Nerely, the character in Con Man, he actually had a role in Rogue One, but he got cut. It sucked. John… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of legislative authority," the Federalist tell us. And… — Gene Healy Copy Share Image
“People everywhere were being told that this war was no continuation of politics by other means, no traditional struggle for limited objectives.… — G.J. Meyer Copy Share Image
“You were satisfied to serve the power of your nation and we dreamed of giving ours her truth. It was enough for… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008...That’s why, over the past six… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day. This is… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far… — David Baker Copy Share Image
The 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under… — Michael Tellinger Copy Share Image
Books I like: John McPhee's 'Coming Into the Country,' Michael Herr's 'Dispatches about the Vietnam War,' and Evan S. Connell's 'Son of… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Ive every said,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“In certain natures, the conflict between social convention and repressed spontaneity is so violent that it manifests itself in crime, insanity, and… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“Before answering this question, we need to say a few more words about famine, plague and war. The claim that we are… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
For the average person, 98 percent of those who fought in the Civil War, they did not own slaves. They were simply… — Corey Stewart Copy Share Image
Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“What sticks with me now is not so much the pain and terror and sorrow of the war, though I remember that… — R.V. Burgin Copy Share Image
“One of my ancestors fought in the War of the Roses“, she announced haughtily, without looking round, “and in those wars you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is because the world is so full of suffering, that your happiness is a gift. It is because the world is… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
“Frederick Douglass, former slave, extraordinary speaker and writer, wrote in his Rochester newspaper the North Star, January 21, 1848, of “the present… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Copy Share Image
