“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid story; it even begins… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The fierce battles between New Democrat centrists and old-style liberals that defined the Democratic Party in the 1990s are long gone, with… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
“Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR's thinking, "he is our bloody… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?” “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. “There are two kinds of people in the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Rosalynn said, "Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on this mountain for a few… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“During and after the war, though, no one in the Allied countries wanted to be reminded that, only a decade or two… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“But then I catch Grigg's eye and he looks at me in a way that tells me exactly what he's feeling and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“They did not suspect her for a moment. It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“I’m running a war, not a tea party, okay? I have to worry about what happens if murderous lunatics with insane powers… — Robert J. Crane Copy Share Image
“Soldier and civilian, they died in their tens of thousands because death had been concocted for them, morality hitched like a halter… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
“Well before Trump, we had wars fought as televised entertainment. The 1990 Gulf War was dubbed the first video-game war, complete with… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
There has always been war. War is raging throughout the world at the present moment. And there is little reason to believe… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
“There seems to be a mountain of obstacles preventing people from being where their hearts want to be. It is so painful… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Churchill was a brilliant and inspiring rhetorician, but one of the first things he did as the head of the British nation… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“What a pull he has! What a magnetism! Women jump off balconies and follow him into wars. Women turn their eyes from… — Naomi Wood Copy Share Image
If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“This world is a magical place without us. All the drama, wars, hatred and the like, originate from, and brew in our… — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana Copy Share Image
We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
“The Russian civil war was won in 1919, but sealed the fate of the revolution, as the victory over the Whites was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Emile Coue pointed out that, “When the imagination and the will are in conflict, the imagination always wins.” If you ‘will’ yourself… — Kevin Horsley Copy Share Image
Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I… — Pietra Brettkelly Copy Share Image
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you've won a great victory, now the war will… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
My father worked in a factory and as a child it felt very secure. It felt very secure because everybody had work,… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
“stupid things. The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever; this was just a case of… — William Landay Copy Share Image
Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“The challenge is that often when we think about success or think about our goals, we think it’ll be good, and there… — Steve Wells Copy Share Image
[Obama's] roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time… — Mark Penn Copy Share Image
People talk often of Brexit as the biggest challenge since the Second World War. It is certainly proving to be a lot… — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
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