What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Most of the boys would come with bits of equipment that their fathers had given them from their war days - helmets,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The Milesians won the battle by merely telling women that they did not belong to the same species as men, & thus… — Nicholas Chong Copy Share Image
Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
“Back in 1992, the camp originally held ninety thousand Somali refugees fleeing the civil war. They had reproduced. Then others had come:… — Ben Rawlence Copy Share Image
In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter… — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“we are repeatedly told that the veterans of the Second World War did not face such problems. They had fought “the good… — Carol Schultz Vento Copy Share Image
This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200… — Bill Bowerman Copy Share Image
“It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South]… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility.… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
The failure of the first Barack Obama administration to really deliver on a new War on Poverty and a new language to… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
We have never said that the fight against the Iranian aggression and against the expansionist Persian tendencies (which have been demonstrated by… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
“Don't we all deal with life the way we do our military service? Doing what we can, while we wait either to… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“From my own experience, after my time in the colonies, I know that a man home from war has much to deal… — Annette Blair Copy Share Image
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“The historical record contradicts the assumption that the Nazis sentenced large numbers of people to death during World War II for telling… — Rudolph Herzog Copy Share Image
“There had never been a funeral in our town before, at least not during our lifetimes. The majority of dying had happened… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“In all honesty (and I know I’m complaining excessively now), I was still getting over Stalin, in Russia. The so-called second revolution—the… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Every single war that you see go down is illegal. They're breaking the Geneva Convention, and they're breakin' all kinds of sh*t… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
“It is a dreamer's doctrine. Visionary, astonishing. And a hard road, in times of war and occupation. If all involved had listened… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image