We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources. . . . The… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbor multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle.… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups,… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
