“Once war was considered the business of soldiers, international relations the concern of diplomats. But now that war has become seemingly total… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“Closing down an event with Confederate reenactors is never really easy for a black guy. Let’s face it, the Confederates lost the… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“had been deeply struck… by the damage wreaked upon mathematics in France by the first world war, when “a misguided notion of… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
“Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never relaxing crusade against skepticism and against dogmatism, against unbelief… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Constant conflict is actually often good politics. Because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman; Who lost Mark Antony the world?… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
“Everybody knows all the movements. General So and So should have done such and such. God knows we all try. We none… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
“This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference,… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Be my lover between two wars waged in the mirror, she said. I don't want to return now to the fortress of… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Women are hit especially hard in regions of ongoing conflict. Before, during, and after conflict, women bear the brunt of the consequences… — Philomena Kwao Copy Share Image
That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Rosewater was twice as smart as Billy, but he and Billy were dealing with similar crises in similar ways. They had both… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Terror is the poor man's war, war is the rich man's terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at… — William Blum Copy Share Image
Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They break hearts. They heal them. If… — Lori Handeland Copy Share Image
“They will not face the fact that the military professionals, while some have ideas about society in general that are distorted and… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
The basic cause of all our difficulties is immaturity. That's why I talk so much about peace within ourselves as a step… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“The path taken by the authorities in their so-called Rauschgiftbekämpfung, or “war on drugs,” lay less in an intensification of the opium… — Norman Ohler Copy Share Image
I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
“With a rough shove, he pushed his palm down the front of his combats and the instant contact was made, an orgasm… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“Athens’s disastrous 415 B.C. expedition against Sicily, the largest democracy in the Greek world, may not prefigure our war in Iraq. (A… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the '60s - we could do these… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“A historian once speculated on what would happen if a time-traveller from 1945 arrived back in Europe just before the First World… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
“Rebel factions are like Nazi collaborators during the war, like they had in Norway and France,” Bill Isabel told me. “Jimmy Hoffa… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Obama! He's now increased the debt more in three years than George W. Bush did his entire eight year presidency.… — Frank J. Fleming Copy Share Image
“I have more enemies than I deserve," I said. "I am fighting a losing battle, me against the world. The next century… — Felix Gilman Copy Share Image
Have you ever asked yourself,do monsters make war, or does war make monsters? I've seen things, angel. There are guerrilla armies that… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image