“the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The richness and generosity of the human spirit I discovered in those journeys, meeting with olive farmers and people caught up in… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“I buy what I think is a beautiful gift for Richard Pryor. It’s a pre-Civil War cigarette and match holder, with a… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“The funeral was a vast, elaborate affair, befitting a monarch or head of state, in marked contrast to the essential simplicity of… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
“For the sun child and the new god will give birth to a new era and the great creators will fall one… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
A refugee in the traditional vision is someone who flees from country to another because of persecution or conflict. But what we're… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has… — David Frum Copy Share Image
I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
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I certainly am not alone in the world with this demand; I am in the best of company. Let it be said… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
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(I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm just a step away. I'm just a breath away. Losing my faith today. Falling off the edge today. I am just… — Skillet Copy Share Image
At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
“As a battle cry against feudalism, the demand for democracy had a progressive character. As time went on, however, the metaphysics of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Britain and America are always kind of at war with the Middle East in some way. And you've got Omid Djalili who… — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
“Surely--But I am very off from that. From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrow that was my clean naivete and my… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given to us to guide our own steps.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Had we gone the invasion… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“God created every man to be free. The ability to choose whether to live free or enslaved, right or wrong, happy or… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past trauma. Like everyone else, they deserve… — Carol Broad Copy Share Image
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The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule…… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I realize that many Christians have not been praying because they have not accepted the reality of war in which we find… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
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