It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from… — Buddha Copy Share Image
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history. — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a kid during the height of the Cold War. If I did something wrong, my parents just accused me of… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. It's a hard job, but real life is harder.… — Atticus Shaffer Copy Share Image
Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed… — Jim Clifton Copy Share Image
“It was like an allegorical picture of war; the trainload of fresh men gliding proudly up the line, the maimed men sliding… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it… — Patrick Macnee Copy Share Image
Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I spent my summers in a war zone because my parents were afraid that if we didn't go back to Palestine every… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
I got to meet Mark Hamill. He signed some Star Wars posters for us. I saw the fight scenes he had. He… — Shannon Elizabeth Copy Share Image
Do not continue the battle. One may think they have won because you chose silence. But the true winner is the one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else.… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Islamist terrorism has declared war against us, against France, Europe, the entire world. — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
“The situation was fast approaching that of 1863, when Chicago doctors labeled the prison an extermination camp.” — George Levy Copy Share Image
It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Conflict tip: What comes out of someone else's mouth is a reflection of their heart ... not yours. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
As the largest market on the planet, I'm not particularly worried about countries that want to start a trade war with America.… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other… — Otto Preminger Copy Share Image
One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
As difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be. Cora” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war… — Cornel West Copy Share Image