“One of the most critical strengths of a superior competitor in any discipline—whether we are speaking about sports, business negotiations, or even… — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
“They have destroyed your weapons,” he had told the generals, in effect. “But these weapons would in any case have become obsolete… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“to lean back into it like in a chair the color of the sun as you listen to lazy piano music and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The roads that lead young men to war are not political roads, or national and international roads, but individual roads. What propels… — James R. Mcdonough Copy Share Image
There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the… — J. Bowyer Bell Copy Share Image
While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Each returning soldier is an in-the-flesh memoir of war. Their chapters might vary, but similar imagery fills the pages, and the theme… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“IT IS not true martyrdom to be killed in the crossfire of someone else’s war. But Joep Lange should still be seen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?" "Didn't they start the Trojan… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we've had to go to… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
After the war, my father, Bernard, left the Army Air Forces to fly for Trans World Airlines. But after I was born,… — Dianne Wiest Copy Share Image
“The world is in rebellion against that government. From these rebels and revolutionists, we hear much talk about “peace,” and a great… — Rousas John Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led… — Helmuth James Graf von Moltke Copy Share Image
“To be sure, I had, and have, spent the better part of my post-college life growing up in the public eye, with… — Kevin Powell Copy Share Image
No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“I came with you to stop a war,’ said Damen. ‘I came because you were the only thing standing between Akielos and… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say… — Monte Irvin Copy Share Image
Shall I be wrong, or am I speaking the truth? My heart tells me to speak, for I think I never saw… — Helen Copy Share Image
From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“-“Forced love hurts God.” -“How can you hurt something that doesn’t exist?” -“At the end of our lives it is our loves we… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I can't watch the news anymore. They have their priorities all out of whack. All I see is Natalee Holloway and Britney… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we… — Quinn Norton Copy Share Image
These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
“They lived in rural Michigan in the pre-automobile age, and for the most part they had never been fifty miles away from… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“And then—the languid hands dropped the uncut book. War, revolution, an absurd marriage, being chosen as the “dictator of his home town,”… — Teffi Copy Share Image
I think it's very dangerous for a free society to have all the information distilled and packaged by our government and given… — Michael Deaver Copy Share Image
Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image