“according to some medical psychologists, it’s physiologically impossible for your mind to stay locked in a war of control when you’re engaging… — Martha N. Beck Copy Share Image
During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
President Obama continues to support war. He continues to remove many basic civil liberties and human rights. He continues to condone drones… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
“The world had been divided into … parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war in Afghanistan, unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“I call the discourse of power any discourse which engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. Some expect of us as intellectuals… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
“Gettysburg is still considered the most famous battle of the war. Why? At Gettysburg, the tide turned. Up until then, the South… — Jim O'Connor Copy Share Image
“newly formed group of women fliers known as the WASPs. Female pilots were desperately needed to ferry planes and supplies around the… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
“Ours is the first time in history that the world is dominated by a peace-loving elite – politicians, business people, intellectuals and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In the future, we should anticipate seeing more hybrid wars where conventional warfare, irregular warfare, asymmetric warfare, and information warfare all blend… — Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono Copy Share Image
In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
There have been repeated cases when nuclear war came ominously close, often a result of malfunctioning of early-warning systems and other accidents,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“Daniel was slow to take up the cheer. But when he did, he meant it. This was politics. It was ugly, it… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The alternative, no limits on Iran's nuclear program, no inspections, an Iran that's closer to a nuclear weapon, the risk of regional… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Any historian of warfare knows that it is in good part a comedy of errors and a museum of incompetence; but if… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The people [in the USA] are not very well informed. They certainly don't know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I dont wanna be left in this War tonight. Am I alone in this fight? Is anybody out there; Can anybody hear… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars, Like petals from a rose, When suddenly across the June A wind with fingers… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“It was written in London under the advancing shadow of the Second World War, and it may be that the apprehensionsof those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When people discuss the drug war, they are usually referring to the one that began in the 1970s, without realizing that this… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Unless Russia is face with an iron fist and strong language, another is in the making. Only one language do they understand… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I think that, if we are to feel at home in the world after the present war, we shall have to admit… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“I never was the type of noblewoman to stay by the hearth while the men rode into battle anyway. As my father… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image