By day certainly the combatants have a clearer notion, though even then by no means of all that takes place, no one… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“We may not have made our grand statement, but we will still have our battle. We are armed with tak and we… — D.J. MacHale Copy Share Image
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Here's a president who gets 47 or 48 percent of the vote and takes 100 percent of the power, as if he… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I had to do some emergency cram sessions with the dialogue coach on set [of the Punisher: War Zone]. But it was… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
I'm unhappy with the President Trump. I don't like his behavior, and I'm a Republican, and I don't like his policies because… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
“Why is history uncontested here? There is no sight of that dispute over words, that battle over versions of stories that marks… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“We all reek of weariness. A room full of the black-soul phenomenon. All of a sudden I don’t feel so alone in… — Angela Ricketts Copy Share Image
The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“How the soldiers had lain, slain and forgotten, no marker for their demise, no songs to their name, not even mourners who… — R.W. Schmidt Copy Share Image
The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways. They all get chummy together perfect strangers.… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you… — Mike Epps Copy Share Image
I love Iain Murray's definition of worldliness: towards the end of Evangelicalism Divided, he says that worldliness consists of loving idols and… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“Old Jiko says that nowadays we young Japanese people are heiwaboke.112 I don’t know how to translate it, but basically it means… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
“Ten miles to the southeast the war went on, badly, for Drake and his men. With nearly a thousand troops already dug… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
For the first ten years, Vladimir Putin was constructing his power structure, and now he's defending it. He's retrenching, mobilizing a shrinking… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“Maybe, when they find out more about chemicals, there won't have to be policemen or wars or crazy houses or divorces or… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We're Human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit… — Robert Hamner Copy Share Image
The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials… — Richard Reeves Copy Share Image
“Michael Herr, the most brilliant reporter of the Vietnam War, captures the same frenzy in the voice of one American soldier he… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
You have to get hurt. That's how you learn. The strongest people out there, the ones who laugh the hardest with a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for,… — Hans Bethe Copy Share Image
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is true that historic Christianity is in conflict at many points with the collectivism of the present day; it does emphasize,… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Terrorists do not actually need nuclear weapons. They have been conveniently supplied with 103 nuclear power plants scattered throughout the United States… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“Because after having overcome the defeats - and we always overcome them - we feel much more euphoria and confidence. In the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
President George H.W. Bush was a patriot who served our country in World War II, lead the CIA, an Ambassador to the… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The only true conqueror who shall be crowned in the end is he who continues until war's trumpet is blown no more…… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War,… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image