If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
It's worth pointing out that conflicts between racially oppressed people often result from the fact that colonialism worked on divide and rule.… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
“Aye, she thought, women must ever wait and steel their hearts against loneliness and fear; and the men would go riding out… — Jan Cox Speas Copy Share Image
Donald Trump very clearly said America first. That is a traditional right wing, but also very isolationist. That takes us back to… — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
“Years after the war, after marriages, children, divorces, books, he came to Paris with his wife. He phoned her. It's me. She… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of… — John Hume Copy Share Image
I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
My soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars Where stands a wingèd sentry All skillful in the wars: There, above… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
“mostly I liked that his adventures kept happening. There were always more bad guys to kill and more good guys to save.… — John Green Copy Share Image
It would be ill-advised to compare war and a sport, but I don't think the brain knows the difference. With post-traumatic stress… — Chris Borland Copy Share Image
I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“Even among Sedlacek's own small cell, his Viennese anti-Nazi club, it was not imagined that the pursuit of the Jews had grown… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
When I arrived in the summer of 2009 to command the war in Afghanistan, I entered an effort that was failing. Many… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
“Oxytocin, a hormone and neuropeptide ... plays a major role in attachment processes and serves several purposes: It causes women to go… — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person)… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
.. the publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for… — Nick Minchin Copy Share Image
I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
What have the masses been clamoring for? Jobs and welfare, and they got 'em. They've also got unions and managements like two… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: “Get… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“The central attitudes driving Rambo are: Strength and aggressiveness are good; compassion and conflict resolution are bad. Anything that could be even… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was… — Gerald Scarfe Copy Share Image
America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with.… — Friedrich von Bernhardi Copy Share Image
Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image